Install Tableau Server on Amazon Web Services

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Introduction

When you install Tableau Server on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual machine (VM), you still have the advanced capabilities of Tableau Server in a local environment. Running Tableau Server on an AWS VM is an excellent choice if you want the flexibility of scaling up and scaling out without having to purchase and maintain an expensive fleet of servers. For instance, you can configure Tableau Server to be highly available, and integrate with all of the common enterprise applications (for example, Active Directory) that many organizations rely on.

Looking for Tableau Server on Windows? See Install Tableau Server on Amazon Web Services(Link opens in a new window).

Tableau Server can take advantage of many native AWS services:

Amazon CloudWatch(Link opens in a new window): Monitors the components of your AWS-based soluton.
Amazon Route53(Link opens in a new window): DNS web service for connecting user requests to your AWS infrastructure.
AWS Certificate Manager(Link opens in a new window): Helps you deploy SSL and TLS certificates for use with AWS.
AWS CloudFormation(Link opens in a new window): Helps you to create and manage related AWS resources in a controlled manner using pre-defined templates.
Elastic Load Balancing(Link opens in a new window): You can use Elastic Load Balancing to spread Tableau requests across multiple Tableau gateways.

In addition, you can store the data you use with Tableau Server using any of the following AWS features. Tableau provides native data connectors(Link opens in a new window) that enable you to connect to data in the following AWS data sources:

Amazon Athena(Link opens in a new window): Interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL.
Amazon Aurora for MySQL(Link opens in a new window): High-performance MySQL-compatible database.
Amazon EMR Hadoop Hive(Link opens in a new window): Managed Hadoop framework for processing large amounts of data.
Amazon Redshift(Link opens in a new window): Data warehousing solution for storing and mining large amounts of data.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS): Relational database solution supports Amazon Aurora for MySQL(Link opens in a new window), PostgreSQL(Link opens in a new window), MySQL(Link opens in a new window), MariaDB(Link opens in a new window), Oracle(Link opens in a new window), and Microsoft SQL Server(Link opens in a new window).
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): Cloud-based storage solution.

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