Questions about the cloud version

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SCADA engineer for a municipal water/wastewater system. New to ignition but I've been playing with it for the last week to evaluate possibly switching from our current system. Really intrigued by the software so far. Thinking about architecture and have never considered cloud stuff because I know nothing about it. However dumping hardware management to someone else sounds great, as i dont know anything about that either. PLCs and electrical are my happy place.

My system is not huge, Im looking at 4 facilities; 2 water plants, 1 wastewater plant, and 1 intake facility. Current system is less than 10000 tags, I could see 10000 to 20000 tags in future system. Most of these would be status or alarms that rarely change. Currently less than 1000 analog tags which would change frequently.

So im wondering right now, what if I put an edge panel installation at each of the 4 facilities for local fallback, those 4 edge panels pump data via mqtt to ignition cloud. Operators connect to perspective project from the cloud. Does it work this way?

I cant figure out the cost of cloud stuff either. If I look at ignition cloud on aws marketplace I see costs of 1-2 dollars an hour. Does that mean if the edge panels are sending data 24/7 and an hmi is just sitting there running, it will cost like 15k a year ???

Again I dont know anything about the cloud, so can someone educate me on this and give me an idea on what it would cost?

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Welcome to the forum and to Ignition. Based on your explanation, everything you laid out in your explanation is certainly possible and has been implemented in this way in many other installations in nearly every industry. To get a better understanding of Ignitions capabilities I suggest reaching out to our sales team to arrange a demo.

Feel free to reach out and I can assist you with getting a demo lined up as well.

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I actually have a call setup for tomorrow with staff to talk mostly about architecture and the like. I went through the building with perspective course on the university and found the software pretty easy to setup. Ive also easily connected it to various plcs as tests.

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