(* While that's what we've been told, we're picking someone must know where the servers are.) Super security: AWS data centres are so secure no-one knows exactly where they are*, plus they have back-up power generation, multiple high bandwidth connections to the internet and are fully climate controlled.Cloud hosting makes it easy to access your apps from anywhere - they’re no longer trapped inside your network.It’s scaleable: if you need more power or more storage, it’s simply a matter of reconfiguring the server through a web page.You’re no longer responsible for the physical computer hardware: that’s taken care of for you.It really simplifies deployment and management and lets us all concentrate on the business end of the solution: Hosting solutions in the cloud has some major advantages over hosting on your own server on your premises. You still connect to it using FileMaker Pro on your desktop/laptop computer, or through WebDirect (if your app has been designed for it), or FileMaker Go.
We’ve been hosting FileMaker solutions on AWS for several years now so we know a lot about how it works and just how easy and reliable it is.įM Cloud is a bundled service that includes both the computer power you need for hosting, plus the FM Server software, backup and administration tools. In this case the “cloud” is Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the leading providers of such cloud infrastructure globally, which means they’re extremely good at providing a robust yet flexible service. The term “Cloud” in this case simply refers to the data and application being hosted in a cluster of computers that are managed for you. There’s a bit of confusion in the world - actually there’s a lot of confusion in the world…. Quite simply FM Cloud is a service where your databases are hosted in a data centre (a big warehouse full of computers) for you, and you're billed monthly based on how many connections you want and how much you use the service. If you’re dialed in to FileMaker Inc for the Asia Pacific region you’ve probably heard that “FileMaker Cloud” is now available - Wahoo! Here's one now:īut what is it exactly? What does it mean for you if you’re a business owner?
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