Signing Up and Setting Up Security Credentials

We’ve been working with a client recently who wants to host the FileMaker solution we’ve built for them on FileMaker Server – Hooray!  We couldn’t agree more. Using FileMaker Server (FMS) provides more flexibility, security, functionality, backups, better performance – the list goes on, but it’s a wise decision on their part.

But then comes the question, how and where to host?

Launching an Instance and Installing FileMaker Server

The second part of our FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) series focuses on launching our server Instance and getting FMS installed and up and running. In our previous blog post, we did all that was necessary on the AWS side to set up groups, users and security prior to being able to launch our server Instance using AWS’ Free Tier option – a free cloud server as long as we stick within the Free Tier guidelines.

So, now that we have all that taken care of, without further ado, let’s launch and connect to our server in the sky…

Utilizing an Elastic IP Address to Access Your FileMaker Server

Continuing our series of FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this installment looks at Elastic IPs, what they are and why you might want one. If you're not familiar with AWS and setting up FMS on an Instance, check out our other blog posts FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 1 and FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 2 before delving into this one.

So, let’s check out Elastic IPs…

Automating Offsite Backups With AWS & FMS

In this article, the most recent in our FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS)series, we're looking at backups. It is beyond crucial to have a good backup strategy in place, and FileMaker Server has a great backup system built into it. What we're concerned with here, though, is what we might consider to be "offsite" backups.

Let’s dig in… 

Limit Downtime by Automatically Imaging Your FileMaker Server

For this post in our continuing series on using FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're going to take a look at implementing automated snapshots. We've discussed in the past how important it is to back up your data files using FileMaker Server's built in back up scheduling feature. We've also explored setting up "offsite" backups in our post, FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS): Backups. Both are insanely important, but they aren't the whole story...

Adding Additional Disk Space To An Existing Volume

It’s not uncommon, as a FileMaker database begins to grow, that the volume originally set up on an AWS instance begins to run out of space. To tackle this, you could launch a new instance with a larger volume, but that seems like a bunch of work and there’s a much simpler way of solving this problem. Let’s find out how…