Workgroup geodatabases included with ArcGIS Server for Amazon Web Services

The ArcGIS Server Amazon Machine Image (AMI) can be used with an ArcGIS for Server Workgroup license. To use this, you authorize your ArcGIS for Server instance with your workgroup license, then you can use the SQL Server Express instance that is included with the ArcGIS for Server AMI. This instance is authorized to store workgroup geodatabases and use with ArcGIS for Server Workgroup.

The SQL Server Express instance (database server) comes with two geodatabases already created: egdb and geodata. As with the enterprise instance, the egdb geodatabase is registered as a database connection that is different from the publisher database connection. When you publish feature or WFS-T services to a site that has a geodatabase registered in this way, the data is copied from your source to the registered geodatabase in the cloud. The geodata geodatabase is intended for use as a replicated geodatabase. You can register the geodata geodatabase as a database connection that is different from the publisher database connection and create a geodata service from it. Through the geodata service, you can synchronize data from your on-premises enterprise or workgroup geodatabase to the geodata geodatabase.

Considerations when using ArcGIS Server Workgroup geodatabases

See the topics in the Administering geodatabases on database servers section of the ArcGIS Help if you want to customize or directly administer these types of geodatabases.

12/29/2014