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What is the FileMaker Cloud?
With the release of the FileMaker 15 platform, FileMaker has launched the new "FileMaker Cloud" service in the USA and Canada. With FileMaker Cloud, it is possible to share FileMaker databases over the Internet and access the databases from any location. The shared databases can be accessed either with FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Go via WebDirect using an Internet browser. FileMaker uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the technical basis for this service. Since March 2017, FileMaker Cloud has also been available in Germany using the Amazon data center in Frankfurt.
FileMaker Cloud Admin Console
For FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker provides an Admin Console that makes it easy to set up database sharing via Amazon Web Services. The Admin Console provides proactive notifications on system performance, utilization and update availability. Login to the Admin Console is via OAuth using Amazon Web Services user data. Other features include automatic maintenance, which performs any necessary restarts outside of business hours, and automatic backups that can be fully or partially restored at any time.
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Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
To use FileMaker Cloud, an instance of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) with storage, data transfer and at least 1,000 booked e-mail messages is required. You can order an instance of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute at the following URL:
https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
On this page, you can specify in great detail which services you would like to book for your cloud application. Amazon already offers ready-made configurations for easy setup, such as "t2.small", "t2.medium", "t2.large", etc. To add a new configuration, click on the "Add New Row" button in the first table "Compute: Amazon EC2 Instances". You can now select a desired configuration in the "Type" column.
FileMaker recommends the following configurations of Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) for the use of the FileMaker Cloud:
Up to 5 users
- t2.small (1 CPU, 2 GB)
- t2.medium (2 CPUs, 4 GB)
- t2.large (2 CPUs, 8 GB)
- c4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 8 GB)
- m4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 16 GB)
Up to 10 users
- t2.medium (2 CPUs, 4 GB)
- t2.large (2 CPUs, 8 GB)
- c4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 8 GB)
- m4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 16 GB)
- m4.2xlarge (8 CPUs, 32 GB)
Up to 25 users
- t2.large (2 CPUs, 8 GB)
- c4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 8 GB)
- m4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 16 GB)
- m4.2xlarge (8 CPUs, 32 GB)
- m4.4xlarge ( 16 CPUs, 64 GB)
Up to 100 users
- c4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 8 GB)
- m4.xlarge (4 CPUs, 16 GB)
- m4.2xlarge (8 CPUs, 32 GB)
- m4.4xlarge (16 CPUs, 64 GB)
- m4.10xlarge (40 CPUs, 160 GB)
For the use of WebDirect, FileMaker recommends at least the "t2.medium" tariff. Storage capacity for storing FileMaker databases can be flexibly booked for an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance. By default, each EC2 instance contains 40 GB of storage capacity.
