In a regular installation it would be located on the same machine that the server is installed, but one of the features of deploying Tableau Server on AWS is that with the Server Management Add-On it’s possible to provision for the repository to sit externally in a different service. The Postgres repository is a key component of any server installation, again the Postgres database could be covered in it’s entirety in a separate post, but it summary it contains information about all of the tables, data sources and users related to the server. Some of these are additional components that need to be installed, but others such as the ones I will be focusing on, are server features which are only made possible by deploying on AWS Externalise the Repository This is a separately licensed component that provides user with additional tools to help with server administration. What may be less well known is the Server Management Add-On. Tableau Server should be fairly well known to most Tableau users, but a very brief description of it would be, a server based space where Tableau content within an organisation can viewed or published. Cost is also a driving factor, because it eliminates the need to spend money on buying and maintaining physical hardware. Additional benefits are scalability because services are deployed in the cloud, it is easy to scale up, or scale down depending on requirements. Benefits of using AWS is that it offers users a great deal of flexibility to pick and choose the services that they need but without the stress of having to provision or maintain their own hardware. What is AWSĪWS is Amazon’s cloud computing offering, and it allows users to leverage and deploy a plethora of services in the cloud. For those that are completely new to both topics though, I will provide a very short description of both below.
The purpose of this is to introduce the concept of deploying a Tableau Server instance with the Server Management add-on using AWS, and some of the specific benefits of doing so.
This post is not intended to be an exhaustive introduction to either Amazon Web Services or to Tableau Server and the Server Management Add-On as those would both require dedicated posts, covering the topic in far more detail. | Ryan Lowers Benefits of deploying The Tableau Server Management Add-On using AWS.
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