FME Cloud provides tips for successfully using their hosted version of FME Server in the cloud. Key benefits include automated backups, real-time monitoring, pay-as-you-go pricing, and no responsibility for hardware. New features include trial instances without credit cards and instance scheduling. Tips include saving money with annual subscriptions and scheduled instances, maximizing security, and leveraging AWS data storage services like S3 for object storage and RDS for scalable relational databases. Demonstrations show uploading data to S3 and using AWS services can provide more robust, scalable and cost effective deployments than on-premises solutions.

1. FME Cloud
Tips for Success

2. Agenda
● Why FME Cloud?
● New FME Cloud features
● Tips for achieving success in the cloud
○ Key cloud deployment pattern

3. The hosted version of FME Server
Automated Backups Real-time Monitoring
Instance Scheduling Notification Framework
Automated Security Patching
No Responsibility for Hardware Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Vertical Scaling

4. Why FME Cloud?
● We handle the
infrastructure for you.
● We handle the security.
● Pay-as-you-go pricing.
● Perfect for data
residing in the cloud.
● All-around agility!

5. New FME Cloud features

6. Trial without credit card

7. Instance Scheduling

8. Tip: Saving Money on
FME Cloud
➔Annual subscription (lowers
costs by up to 40%), and
➔Schedule instances to come
online only when needed

9. FME Cloud
Alerts
● Set up alerts for health of
your FME Server instance.
● Send notifications via email
or third-party services.
● Enjoy real-time monitoring.
Be the first to know if your
FME Server has an issue!

10. Custom Notifications

11. Achieving success in the cloud

12. Staging / development deployment:
Keep it simple.
• Server & PostGIS on one machine.
• Limited scalability & fault tolerance.
• PostGIS data needs manual migration.

13. Maximize security.
● Activate two-factor authentication.
● Create personal users in Team Management.
● Monitor instance activity and login history.
● Protect your API token.
More on this at blog.safe.com

14. We take security seriously.
● Single-tenancy architecture.
● SSL and automated security
patching.
● FME Server and FME Cloud
security whitepapers
http://fme.ly/server
http://fme.ly/cloud

15. Next level: Leverage AWS
●Build workflows that
leverage AWS.
●Build solutions orders of
magnitude cheaper than
traditional approaches.

16. Learn about Cloud Services
● Attain basic knowledge of the cloud.
● Amazon has a free tier. Sign up and play!

17. Key deployment pattern:
Leverage AWS data storage
services

18. Leverage AWS Data Storage Services

19. Leverage AWS Data Storage Services
AWS
Simple
Storage
(S3)
AWS
RDS /
Aurora
Easy to operate,
fault tolerant,
scalable Relational
Database Service
in the cloud.
Secure, durable,
highly-scalable
object storage

20. What’s so great
about AWS S3?
● Host static web
resources on S3
● Higher performance
delivery with
CloudFront.
● Version data or move to
Glacier.
● Provide time-limited
access to data.

21. Demo: Load to AWS S3
Data → HTML Report → Upload to S3 → Stream to Web Users
http://fme.ly/fmewt2016parks

22. Park Demo:
Cost of Solution
Storage
○ S3 is 3 cents per GB per month.
○ File is 200 KB... 3 cents a month.
Delivery
○ 5000 free requests per month.
Each extra 5,000 requests is 9
cents.
Total cost for 100,000 requests is
$1.83 per month.

23. AWS RDS Cloud Database
Easy to operate,
fault tolerant,
scalable Relational
Database Service
in the cloud.
AWS Aurora (MySQL compatible)
Oracle
MariaDB
PostgreSQL (PostGIS)
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
SupportedDataTypes
The code,
applications, and
tools you use today
with your existing
databases can be
used with Amazon
RDS.

24. What’s so great
about AWS RDS?
● Automatic backups.
● Automatic software
patches.
● 1 click scaling
● Replication enhances
availability and reliability.
● Deploy in minutes.

25. Cost: On-Premises vs. RDS PostGIS

26. • FME Cloud makes it is easier than ever to
manage your instances.
• Maximize the security of your FME Cloud
account.
• Leverage AWS Services for more performant,
scalable, and robust deployments.
Summary

27. Resources
● fme.ly/aws
○ AWS official blog - the story of our migration to
AWS
● fme.ly/server, fme.ly/cloud
○ Security whitepapers
● blog.safe.com
○ 5 steps for improving your account security
○ New feature announcements
● knowledge.safe.com

28. Thank you!
Questions?