{"id":655,"date":"2021-05-27T04:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/product\/fms-18-0-x-on-aws-ec2-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:01:05","slug":"fms-18-0-x-on-aws-ec2-guide","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/product\/fms-18-0-x-on-aws-ec2-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"FMS 18.0.x on AWS EC2 Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Amazon Web Services is a massive, complex galaxy of over 200 individual services. At the center of that galaxy is EC2, their Elastic Compute Cloud. If you\u2019re looking for the cheapest, fastest, best way to get the most flexible, customizable version of your on-premises FileMaker server onto the cloud, this is your last stop for instructions.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><em>EVERYTHING<\/em> <\/strong>you need to know is laid out in a 29 page, step-by-step, illustrated guide designed for FileMaker server administrators, developers, users and hobbyists of all skill levels. Contents include:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Why you should host on AWS EC2<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to secure and prepare your data for hosting online<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to create an EC2 instance in the correct region<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to choose the right size for your instance and how to change it when your solution grows<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">What EC2 options you really want to select for your server and how to save money while you configure<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to add the right amount of SSD (hard drive) storage<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to configure AWS security groups<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to connect to your instance through Remote Desktop (RDP)<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to set the windows firewall and what ports to open<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to associate an elastic IP and configure DNS<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to securely install FileMaker Server and FMS admin console<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">HOW TO INSTALL SSL: generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), purchase and install a functioning SSL certificate for about $9 in under 20 minutes \u2013 SAVE $80 vs. GoDaddy<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to upload your files to your EC2 instance in minutes, not hours<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to install OpenJDK8 for Webdirect<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to change the default time your FileMaker server backs up databases each day<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to create an IAM permissions set with the least privileges needed to complete a backup \u2013 don\u2019t leave your root credentials online!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to install the AWS CLI on your EC2 instance, create an IAM user, a scheduled script and a batch file to upload your backups to S3 securely<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to configure your S3 backups for automatic expiration and transitioning to AWS Glacier Deep Archive ($1\/TB per month)<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to double encrypt your backups<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">How to disable the RDP port when it is not in use<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Printable forms for saving all of your passwords and critical credentials information offline<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Several of our customers have used this guide to create phenomenal changes to their organizations. AWS EC2 cloud servers are great for:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Distributed teams that need to work remotely<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Increased physical security<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Lowering or eliminating hardware, electricity, networking, ISP and security costs<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Connecting FileMaker solutions to outside APIs<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Prototyping new server configurations without buying hardware<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s what people are saying about the guide.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cI came to Sully with some issues with my Amazon Web Services setup and he walked me through all that I needed to do and I was up and running right away. His knowledge of the working interrelationships of all the parts in AWS is encyclopedic, and I highly recommend his assistance to others.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'SF Pro Text', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u2013Jonathan Fletcher, CEO, Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A step by step, illustrated guide for hosting FMS on AWS EC2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Amazon Web Services is a massive, complex galaxy of over 200 individual services. At the center of that galaxy is EC2, their Elastic Compute Cloud. If you\u2019re looking for the cheapest, fastest, best way to get the most flexible, customizable version of your on-premises FileMaker server onto the cloud, this is your last stop for instructions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>EVERYTHING\u00a0<\/em><\/span>you need to know is laid out in a 29 page, step-by-step, illustrated guide designed for FileMaker server administrators, developers, users and hobbyists of all skill levels. Contents include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>Why you should host on AWS EC2<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>How to secure and prepare your data for hosting online<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>How to create an EC2 instance in the correct region<\/li>\n<li>How to choose the right size for your instance and how to change it when your solution grows<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>What EC2 options you really want to select for your server and how to save money while you configure<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>How to add the right amount of SSD (hard drive) storage<\/li>\n<li>How to configure AWS security groups<\/li>\n<li>How to connect to your instance through Remote Desktop (RDP)<\/li>\n<li>How to set the windows firewall and what ports to open<\/li>\n<li>How to associate an elastic IP and configure DNS<\/li>\n<li>How to securely install FileMaker Server and FMS admin console<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>HOW TO INSTALL SSL: generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), purchase and install a functioning SSL certificate for about $9 in under 20 minute<\/em>s \u2013\u00a0<em>SAVE $80 vs. GoDaddy<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>How to upload your files to your EC2 instance in minutes, not hours<\/li>\n<li>How to install OpenJDK8 for Webdirect<\/li>\n<li>How to change the default time your FileMaker server backs up databases each day<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>How to create an IAM permissions set with the least privileges needed to complete a backup \u2013 don\u2019t leave your root credentials online!<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>How to install the AWS CLI on your EC2 instance, create an IAM user, a scheduled script and a batch file to upload your backups to S3 securely<\/li>\n<li>How to configure your S3 bucket for automatic expiration and transitioning to AWS Glacier Deep Archive ($1\/TB per month)<\/li>\n<li>How to double encrypt your backups at rest<\/li>\n<li>How to disable the RDP port when it is not in use<\/li>\n<li>Forms for saving all of your passwords and critical information offline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Several of our customers have used this guide to create phenomenal changes to their organizations. AWS EC2 cloud servers are great for:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>Distributed teams that need to work remotely<\/li>\n<li>Increased physical security<\/li>\n<li>Lowering or eliminating hardware, electricity, networking, ISP and security costs<\/li>\n<li>Connecting FileMaker solutions to outside APIs<\/li>\n<li>Prototyping new server configurations without buying hardware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s a preview of what you can expect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #222222;\" href=\"https:\/\/mandelbrotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Teaser-Copy-of-Set-up-FMS-on-AWS-EC2-without-FM-Cloud-revision-1.5.pdf\">https:\/\/mandelbrotllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Teaser-Copy-of-Set-up-FMS-on-AWS-EC2-without-FM-Cloud-revision-1.5.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s what people are saying about the guide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" style=\"color: #666666; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;\">\u201cI came to Sully with some issues with my Amazon Web Services setup and he walked me through all that I needed to do and I was up and running right away. His knowledge of the working interrelationships of all the parts in AWS is encyclopedic, and I highly recommend his assistance to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: 600; margin-top: 0.5em;\">\u2013Jonathan Fletcher, CEO, Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[33],"product_tag":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-655","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-utility","7":"product_tag-server","8":"desktop-align-left","9":"tablet-align-left","10":"mobile-align-left","11":"ast-product-gallery-layout-vertical","12":"ast-magnify-disabled","13":"ast-product-tabs-layout-horizontal","15":"first","16":"instock","17":"sold-individually","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"product-type-external"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pentagon.fm\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}