Amazon Web Services (AMS) provides virtual servers using EC2 technology.

EC2 in turn uses AMI (Amazon Machine Image), which is a snapshot of OS (Operating
Systems) or a VM (Virtual Machine) itself, ESRI uses these AMIs to setup an EC2
instance.

AMI: Amazon Machine Image

EC2 Instance: Machine Rental Service

Security Group: Firewall Access Rules

ELB: Elastic load balancer

Auto Scaling: Automatically

add/remove machines.

Region & availability Zones: Where your system runs

As show, deployment can be done in different region, each region has self-contained
datacenters completely autonomous providing redundancy.

Deployment AMI with SQL Server for enterprise:

ESRI ArcGIS 10.4.1 Server with SQL Server

Operating system

Windows Server 2012 R2

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Standard Edition)

Web server

IIS 8

Web browser

Internet Explorer 11

Root storage

100 GB EBS volume

Attached storage

10 GB EBS volume on D:

ArcGIS software

ArcGIS 10.4.1 for Desktop, ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server,

ArcGIS 10.4.1 for Server, ArcGIS Web Adaptor (IIS), Portal for
ArcGIS 10.4.1, ArcGIS 10.4.1 Data Store

ArcGIS Server account name

ArcGIS

High-availability deployment
Traditional

Cloud

AWS Security

Application Server Scalability

ArcGIS Server Scalability

Geodatabase/Database

One of the main benefits of this architecture is that it allows you to continue running
ArcGIS Server even if you lose any GIS server instance, which means your services are
available even if one of the machines fails.
AWS RDS on SQL Server is supported form ArcGIS 10.3 version.

Item

Availability

High availability

AWS

DR

AGS Backups, Cloud Builder Backups,

Cloud Builder Templates, AMIs.

Scaling

AWS

DB High availability

Supports SQL RDS

Security

AWS internal security (SSL)

Bandwidth

8Mbps