Best Practices for Installing Tableau Server on Amazon Web Services

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Introduction

The following best practices make installing Tableau Server in the cloud a better experience.

• Read the Tableau Server Plan Your Deployment section.

• Read What You Need Before You Begin.

• Read the Tableau Server Security Hardening Checklist.

• If you’re new to the cloud, use the AWS Free Tier to get familiar with working in the cloud before you deploy Tableau Server on AWS.

• Read about and understand network topology on AWS and how to architect it.

• Use an Amazon elastic network interface to provide a static MAC address for your Amazon EC2 instance.

Keeping Costs Down

AWS offers cloud-based services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Costs are determined by the services you run and amount of time you use them. Different combinations of instance types and sizes have different costs. For more information about services pricing, see AWS Pricing at the AWS website. You can estimate your total monthly costs using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator at the AWS website. You can also compare on-premises vs the cloud using the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators at the AWS website.

To help monitor and control usage costs on an ongoing basis, you can use Amazon CloudWatch to alert you when your monthly AWS costs reach your predefined spending threshold. For more information, see Monitor Your Estimated Charges Using Cloudwatch in the Amazon CloudWatch User’s Guide at the AWS website.