Ignition Sever with AWS Cloud Infrastructure Recommendation

General Discussion
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We are planning to set up a new Ignition server on AWS cloud infrastructure and kindly share the recommendations on the server structure. Our requirements are as follows:
Requirement 1:

  • Number of Machines: 120
  • Infrastructure: AWS Cloud
  • Software: Ignition Server and SQL Database
  • OS Preferences: Windows Server or Ubuntu Pro or Linux (based on best performance and stability)
  • Purpose: OEE implementation and data storage

Requirement 2:

  • Number of Machines: 400
  • Infrastructure: AWS Cloud
  • Software: Ignition Server, SQL Database
  • Scope: OEE, Energy Management System (EMS), and other digitalization projects
  • Architecture: Common centralized server for cross-business-level integration
  • OS Preferences: Windows Server or Ubuntu Pro or Linux

Could you provide recommendations on:

  • The most suitable OS for Ignition and SQL database performance
  • AWS instance types, storage, and networking considerations
  • Scalability options for future expansion

Looking forward to your suggestions.

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If you use the official cloud instances you get full support from all parties involved for the Ignition side.
You can also choose managed self scaling databases or discrete servers running an sql DB.
I would split your historian into a dedicated time series platform like Influx and your relational database requirements into PostgreSQL.

Also, the fact you even mentioned windows in this context indicates this is possibly the first time you’ve worked in the cloud. Linux runs the cloud, pick your flavour. Redhat, Ubuntu and a couple of other distros have very good commercial support, and are my recommendations.

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