What You Need Before You Begin

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Introduction

Before deploying Tableau Server on AWS, you must have the following:

• An AWS account.

• An Amazon EC2 key pair.

  For more information, see Amazon EC2 Key Pairs in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances at the AWS website.

• A Tableau Server license.

  • For a standalone Tableau Server deployment, you must contact sales for a product key.

  • For a cluster-based deployment, you need a user-based license (which covers all authorized users of Tableau Server), a core-based license (with a minimum of 16 cores), or a Tableau Server subscription license. To obtain a product key, contact sales.

  For more information about Tableau Server licensing options, see Licensing Overview.

• (Optional) A domain managed by Amazon Route 53.

• (Optional) An SSL certificate managed by AWS Certificate Manager in the region where you are deploying Tableau Server.

• Storage on Amazon EC2 instance (a general purpose SSD (gp2) is recommended).

• (Optional) An Elastic IP address if you aren't using ELB or Amazon Route53.