What You Need Before You Begin


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Deployments on public clouds continue to be supported but the content for third-party public cloud deployments is no longer updated.

For the latest Tableau Server deployment content, see the Enterprise Deployment Guide(Link opens in a new window) and the Deploy(Link opens in a new window) section of Tableau Server help.

For those customers who have access, we recommend Tableau Cloud. For more details, see:

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(Link opens in a new window) 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(Link opens in a new window) 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(Link opens in a new window).

  • (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.

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