Working with FME Flow Hosted Instances

An FME Flow Hosted instance is a virtual machine (the server) with FME Flow (the software) and PostGIS (a database for storing spatial and non-spatial data) installed. This is your own dedicated machine. Absolutely no one else has access to your environment while you are connected.

The machine runs on Ubuntu OS, and uses Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for highly reliable and available local storage.

The FME Flow installation is a fully-tested build of the software, running on the Linux 64-bit platform.

All FME Flow Hosted instances are configured to use UTF-8 character encoding, and run in the UTC time zone.

To check out the data formats available in the latest release, see the Complete List of Formats Supported by FME.