Deploying FME Flow in the Cloud

Safe Software Inc. provides a variety of options for deploying FME Flow to a Cloud environment.

Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure Marketplace allows you to deploy FME Flow on Windows, optimized for Azure Cloud. This option, based on a distributed FME Flow architecture, defines the virtual machine configuration, file storage, load balancers, and databases. It also leverages Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, making it easy to scale the FME Engines.

This deployment is not as flexible as deploying FME Flow manually using installers. For example, you cannot easily change the underlying images (for example, installing Esri software) or switch to a different database.

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Terraform

Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool to create templates for multiple cloud providers. The following Terraform templates allow for distributed FME Flow deployments on Windows:

Vendor-Specific IaC Tools

As alternatives to Terraform for a Windows distributed FME Flow deployment on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, the following vendor-specific options are available: