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Cloud Analytics Modernization on the AWS Cloud

with Informatica, Tableau Server, and AWS Services

Quick Start Reference Deployment

November 2018

Ryann Lannan – Informatica Cloud Data Integration Team

Vaidy Krishnan – Tableau Product Management

Vinod Shukla – AWS Quick Start Reference Team

AWS can provide you with AWS credits for this deployment. Please

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Contents

Quick Links ............................................................................................................................ 3

Overview ................................................................................................................................. 3

Solution Components ......................................................................................................... 4

Costs and Licenses .............................................................................................................. 5

Prerequisites .......................................................................................................................... 6

Specialized Knowledge ....................................................................................................... 6

Technical Requirements ..................................................................................................... 6

Architecture ............................................................................................................................ 7

Infrastructure ..................................................................................................................... 7

AWS Services ......................................................................................................................8

Tableau Services .................................................................................................................8

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Informatica EDC Services .................................................................................................. 9

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services ............................................................................ 10

Quick Start Dataset........................................................................................................... 10

Deployment Options ............................................................................................................. 11

Deployment Steps ................................................................................................................ 12

Step 1. Prepare Your AWS Account .................................................................................. 12

Step 2. Register at Informatica Marketplace ................................................................... 13

Step 3. Launch the Quick Start ........................................................................................ 13

Step 4. Monitor the Deployment ...................................................................................... 23

Step 5: Test the Deployment ............................................................................................ 25

Optional: Using Your Own Dataset ................................................................................. 28

Optional: Adding VPC Definitions .................................................................................. 28

Best Practices ....................................................................................................................... 29

Using Cloud Analytics Modernization on AWS ............................................................... 29

Manual Cleanup ............................................................................................................... 29

Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................... 32

Additional Resources ........................................................................................................... 34

GitHub Repository ............................................................................................................... 34

Document Revisions ............................................................................................................ 35

This Quick Start deployment guide was created by Informatica and Tableau Software in

collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Quick Starts are automated reference deployments that use AWS CloudFormation

templates to deploy key technologies on AWS, following AWS best practices.

http://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/


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Quick Links The links in this section are for your convenience. Before you launch the Quick Start, please

review the architecture, security, and other considerations discussed in this guide.

If you have an AWS account, and you’re already familiar with AWS services, Informatica

products, and Tableau Server, you can launch the Quick Start to build the architecture

shown in Figure 1 in a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC). The deployment takes

approximately two hours. If you’re new to AWS, Informatica, or Tableau, please review

the implementation details and follow the step-by-step instructions provided later in

this guide.

If you want to take a look under the covers, you can view the AWS CloudFormation

templates that automate the deployment.

Overview

This Quick Start reference deployment guide provides step-by-step instructions for

deploying a cloud analytics modernization solution on the AWS Cloud with Informatica and

Tableau software.

Cloud analytics modernization is a powerful approach to fuel data-driven digital

transformations and migrations to the cloud. This integrated solution from Informatica,

Tableau Software, and AWS speeds the time to evaluate and deploy an end-to-end solution

for self-service cloud analytics. It enables you to connect to cloud and on-premises data

sources, and to catalog and profile your data assets for analysis and visualization. The Quick

Start includes the following services:

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, for secure data pipelines to cloud and on-

premises data.

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), for data source cataloging that provides

provenance, lineage, and relationships for data assets. A plug-in enables users to

access business and technical context from within Tableau.

Tableau Server, for secure, governed visual analytics.

View template (for new VPC)

Launch (for new VPC)

Launch (for existing VPC)

View template (for existing VPC)

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Amazon Redshift, for fast, cost-effective data warehousing.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with Oracle Database, for

storing aggregate data for the Tableau dashboards.

This Quick Start supports the following key design principles:

Data is easily accessible to analysts and other business users through self-service.

You can analyze all your data across your software as a service (SaaS) and on-premises

applications.

You can enable your users with self-service analytics so they can easily discover and

understand trusted and relevant enterprise-wide data for analytics.

You can use high-productivity, GUI-driven tools that abstract complexity and reduce

costs.

Data, which is a valuable corporate asset, is managed collaboratively, and supports your

data governance, data quality, and data security initiatives.

This Quick Start is for users who want to deploy and develop a cloud analytics

modernization solution, managed by their IT team, to enable their business.

Solution Components

This cloud analytics modernization solution uses the following products:

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is a next-generation integration platform as a

service (iPaaS) that provides enterprise data management through a suite of intelligent

cloud services. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services enables you to build high-performant

cloud data warehouses, create and manage data integration projects, and orchestrate and

automate business processes. You can create processes that are event-driven or exposed as

APIs, and integrate, test, and monitor the API endpoints you consume. Informatica

Intelligent Cloud Services analyzes the state of orchestration and deployment activities

across all cloud services and provides in-depth, actionable insights. Informatica Intelligent

Cloud Services also provides analysis of enterprise health, domain-level analytics, job and

workflow statistics, and node-level resource consumption.

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) brings together all data assets in an

enterprise and presents a comprehensive view of the data assets and data asset

relationships. Enterprise Data Catalog captures the technical, business, and operational

metadata for a large number of data assets that you use to determine the effectiveness of

enterprise data. From across the enterprise, Enterprise Data Catalog gathers information


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related to metadata, including column data statistics, data domains, data object

relationships, and data lineage information. A comprehensive view of enterprise metadata

can help you make critical decisions about data integration, data quality, and data

governance in the enterprise.

Tableau Server is a scalable, enterprise-class analytics platform that enables you to

securely scale data and analytics across your organization. Users can filter and drill down

into data or author new content without being limited to predefined questions, wizards, or

chart types. They can share and collaborate with Tableau workbooks and data sources.

Distributed mobile and browser-based users can interact with workbooks published to the

server from Tableau Desktop or embedded into company portals. Tableau Desktop users

can leverage prepared data sources published from Tableau Prep.

The Quick Start also includes Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, which serve as data

sources for Tableau Server. For additional details on Quick Start components, see the

Architecture section.

Costs and Licenses You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this Quick Start

reference deployment. There is no additional cost for using the Quick Start.

The AWS CloudFormation templates for this Quick Start include configuration parameters

that you can customize. Some of these settings, such as instance type, will affect the cost of

deployment. See the pricing pages for each AWS service you will be using for cost estimates.

Tip After you deploy the Quick Start, we recommend that you enable the AWS Cost

and Usage Report to track costs associated with the Quick Start. This report delivers

billing metrics to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket in your

account. It provides cost estimates based on usage throughout each month, and

finalizes the data at the end of the month. For more information about the report,

see the AWS documentation.

This Quick Start requires a license or trial subscription to deploy the following services:

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog

Tableau Server

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Register at Informatica Marketplace to obtain a trial license for Informatica Intelligent

Cloud Services and to create a trial organization. Deploying the Quick Start will

automatically activate Enterprise Data Catalog and Tableau Server software and trial

license keys.

Prerequisites

Specialized Knowledge

Before you deploy this Quick Start, we recommend that you become familiar with the

following AWS services. (If you are new to AWS, see the Getting Started Resource Center.)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

Amazon RDS

In addition, we recommend that you review the following:


Enterprise Data Catalog

Tableau Server on AWS Quick Start

Technical Requirements

Before you deploy this Quick Start, verify the following:

You have an account with AWS, and you know the account login information. The user

should be granted administrative privileges, which allows full access to AWS services

and resources.

You have a license or trial subscription for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. To

sign up for a free trial, go to Informatica Marketplace.

This Quick Start will automatically deploy Enterprise Data Catalog with a 30-day trial

license.

This Quick Start will automatically deploy Tableau Server with a 14-day trial license. If

you have a Tableau Server license key and would like to use it, enter it in the Tableau

Server license key field during deployment (see step 3). To obtain a product key,

contact [email protected].

https://marketplace.informatica.com/community/microsite/cloud_analytics

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/vpc/

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/index.html#lang/en_us

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3/index.html?id=docs_gateway#lang/en_us

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rds/index.html?id=docs_gateway#lang/en_us

https://www.informatica.com/products/cloud-integration.html#fbid=nvSiKbU3W_g

https://kb.informatica.com/proddocs/Product%20Documentation/6/IN_1021_EnterpriseDataCatalogUserGuide_en.pdf

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Architecture Deploying this Quick Start for a new virtual private cloud (VPC) with the default parameters

builds the following cloud analytics modernization environment in the AWS Cloud.

Figure 1: Cloud analytics modernization solution deployed on AWS

Infrastructure

The Quick Start sets up a highly available architecture that spans two Availability Zones,

and a VPC configured with two public and two private subnets according to AWS best

practices.

The Quick Start installs and configures the following infrastructure components:

Amazon VPC. This service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS

Cloud where you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. The VPC

provides a network architecture with multiple public and private subnets that span

multiple Availability Zones, so that AWS resources can be deployed in highly available

configurations.


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Remote Desktop Gateway. The Quick Start deploys a Remote Desktop Gateway

instance in an Auto Scaling group in the public subnets and configures it with an Elastic

IP address for outbound internet connectivity. This gateway provides secure access to

Microsoft Windows instances located in the private and public subnets. The Remote

Desktop Gateway instance uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) over HTTPS to

establish a secure, encrypted connection between remote users on the internet and

Windows-based EC2 instances, without needing to configure a virtual private network

(VPN) connection. This helps reduce the attack surface on your Windows-based

instances and provides a remote administration solution for administrators.

NAT Gateway. The NAT gateway instance in the public subnet enables instances in the

private subnets to connect to the internet or to other AWS services, but prevents the

internet from initiating a connection with those instances.

IAM roles. The Quick Start configures AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

roles to provide the required access for AWS resources created through the Quick Start.

These IAM roles enable access to data in Amazon S3, enable Amazon Redshift to copy

data from the sample dataset’s S3 bucket and key prefix into its tables, and enable

association with the Amazon Redshift cluster.

AWS Services

Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is an object store that provides artifacts necessary for the

Quick Start, including datasets, dashboards, and SQL required to configure AWS

database services and to compute aggregates for the sample dataset.

Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data

warehouse. The Quick Start uses Amazon Redshift to provide full fact tables, ad-hoc

exploration and aggregation, and filtered drill-downs. Amazon Redshift is optimized for

computationally intensive workloads such as computation of aggregates and complex

joins, and supports analysis on both Microsoft Windows and macOS.

Amazon RDS with Oracle Database. This service makes it easy to set up, operate,

and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides the Quick Start with high-query-

volume aggregate tables that feed scale-out dashboards. It is deployed in multiple

Availability Zones for high availability.

Tableau Services

Tableau Server on Amazon EC2. The Quick Start provides a single-node

deployment of Tableau Server on Windows with the ability to host and serve analytics

dashboards and workbooks, which is supported by the trial license. If you have a

Tableau Server license, you can enter it upon deployment. For a Tableau Server


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standalone or cluster (multi-node) environment on AWS, see the Quick Start for

Tableau Server.

Sample Tableau Server dashboard. Dashboards, consistent with the sample

dataset, demonstrate how to connect to multiple data sources in AWS to optimize

performance.

Informatica EDC Services

The following services are set up on Amazon RDS:

Informatica domain. The Informatica domain is the fundamental administrative unit

of the Informatica platform. The Informatica platform has a service-oriented

architecture that provides the ability to scale services and share resources across

multiple machines.

Model Repository Service. The model repository is a relational database that stores

all the metadata for projects created using Informatica client tools. The model

repository also stores run-time and configuration information for applications that are

deployed to a Data Integration Service.

The following services are set up on the Informatica EC2 node:

Analyst Service. The Analyst Service runs the Analyst tool in the Informatica domain.

The Analyst Service manages the connections between the service components and the

users who log in to the Analyst tool. You can perform column and rule profiling, manage

scorecards, and manage bad records and duplicate records in the Analyst tool.

Business Glossary. The Business Glossary consists of online glossaries of business

terms and policies that define important concepts within an organization. Data stewards

create and publish terms that include information such as descriptions, relationships to

other terms, and associated categories. Glossaries are stored in a central location for

easy lookup by consumers. Glossary assets include business terms, policies, and

categories that contain information that consumers might search for. A glossary is a

high-level container that stores Glossary assets. A business term defines relevant

concepts within the organization, and a policy defines the business purpose that governs

practices related to the term. Business terms and policies can be associated with

categories, which are descriptive classifications.

Catalog Service. This service runs Enterprise Data Catalog and manages connections

between service components and external applications.

Hadoop. An embedded Hadoop cluster uses Hortonworks, running the Hadoop

Distributed File System (HDFS), Apache HBase, YARN, and Solr.




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Informatica Cluster Service. The Informatica Cluster Service runs and manages all

Hadoop services, Apache Ambari server, and Apache Ambari agents on the embedded

Hadoop cluster.

Metadata and Catalog. The Metadata Catalog includes the metadata persistence

store, search index, and graph database in the embedded Hadoop cluster. The catalog

represents an indexed inventory of all the data assets in the enterprise that you

configure in Enterprise Data Catalog. Enterprise Data Catalog organizes all the

enterprise metadata in the catalog and enables the users of external applications to

discover and understand the data.


Informatica Cloud Secure Agent. An Informatica Cloud Secure Agent is a

lightweight program that runs tasks and enables secure communication across the

firewall between your organization and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. It allows

you to connect to access and manage data in cloud and on-premise applications,

platforms, databases, and flat files. The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent is also deployed

on the Informatica EC2 node.

Quick Start Dataset

The Quick Start includes a sample dataset that demonstrates the cloud analytics workflow.

The Quick Start is designed so that you can replace this dataset as needed for your use case,

as explained later in this guide. The dataset is stored in Amazon S3 and includes the

following data components and artifacts:

Quick Start seed data in CSV format.

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services mapping that transforms CSV seed data and

stores it in an Amazon Redshift target: S3 to Redshift_ITQS

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services mapping that aggregates Amazon Redshift

records and stores it in an Oracle target: Aggregate Store Sales_ITQS

Tableau Server uses Amazon Redshift and Oracle as data sources for visualization.

Figure 2 shows the data flow in the cloud analytics modernization solution.


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Figure 2: Cloud analytics modernization data flow

Deployment Options This Quick Start provides two deployment options:

Deployment of the cloud analytics modernization solution into a new VPC

(end-to-end deployment). This option builds a new VPC with public and private

subnets, and then deploys the cloud analytics modernization solution into that

infrastructure.

Deployment of the cloud analytics modernization solution into an existing

VPC. This option provisions cloud analytics components into your existing AWS

infrastructure.

The Quick Start provides separate templates for these options. It also lets you configure

Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Informatica, and Tableau settings, as discussed later in

this guide.


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Deployment Steps

Step 1. Prepare Your AWS Account

1. If you don’t already have an AWS account, create one at https://aws.amazon.com by

following the on-screen instructions.

2. Use the region selector in the navigation bar to choose the AWS Region where you want

to deploy the cloud analytics modernization solution on AWS.

3. Create a key pair in your preferred region.

When you log in to any Amazon EC2 system, you use a password file for authentication.

The file is called a private key file and has a file name extension of .pem. If you do not

have an existing .pem key to use, follow the instructions in the AWS documentation to

create a key pair.

Note Your administrator might ask you to use a particular existing key pair.

When you create a key pair, you save the .pem file to your desktop system.

Simultaneously, AWS saves the key pair to your account. Make a note of the key pair

that you want to use for the cloud analytics modernization instance, so that you can

provide the key pair name during the deployment in step 3.

4. If necessary, request a service limit increase for the following instance types. You might

need to do this if you already have existing deployments that use these instance types,

and you think you might exceed the default limits with this reference deployment.

Component Instance type

Informatica domain, EDC

services, Secure Agent

c4.4xlarge

Embedded metadata cluster c4.8xlarge

Tableau Server m5.4xlarge

Remote Desktop for Tableau t2.large

Oracle RDS db.m4.2xlarge

Amazon Redshift cluster dc1.large-1 node

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Step 2. Register at Informatica Marketplace

1. If you haven’t already subscribed to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, Informatica

Enterprise Data Catalog, and Tableau Server, register at Informatica Marketplace.

2. Confirm your account through the verification email and input your password when

prompted.

Step 3. Launch the Quick Start

Note You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this

Quick Start reference deployment. There is no additional cost for using this Quick

Start. For full details, see the pricing pages for each AWS service you will be using in

this Quick Start. Prices are subject to change.

1. Choose one of the following options to launch the AWS CloudFormation template into

your AWS account. For help choosing an option, see deployment options earlier in this

guide.

Option 1

Deploy cloud analytics

modernization into a new VPC

on AWS

Option 2

Deploy cloud analytics

modernization into an existing

VPC on AWS

Important If you’re deploying the cloud analytics modernization solution into an

existing VPC, make sure that your VPC has two private subnets and one public

subnet in different Availability Zones. These subnets require NAT gateways or NAT

instances in their route tables, to allow the instances to download packages and

software without exposing them to the Internet. You’ll also need the domain name

option configured in the DHCP options as explained in the Amazon VPC

documentation. You’ll be prompted for your VPC settings when you launch the Quick

Start.

Each deployment takes about two hours to complete.

2. Check the region that’s displayed in the upper-right corner of the navigation bar and

change it if necessary. This is where the network infrastructure for the cloud analytics

Launch Launch


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modernization solution will be built. The template is launched in the US East (Ohio)

Region by default.

3. On the Select Template page, keep the default setting for the template URL, and then

choose Next.

4. On the Specify Details page, change the stack name if needed. Review the parameters

for the template. Provide values for the parameters that require input. For all other

parameters, review the default settings and customize them as necessary. When you

finish reviewing and customizing the parameters, choose Next.

In the following tables, parameters are listed by category and described separately for

the two deployment options:

– Parameters for deploying components into a new VPC

– Parameters for deploying components into an existing VPC

Note The templates for the two scenarios share most, but not all, of the same

parameters. For example, the template for an existing VPC prompts you for the VPC

and subnet IDs in your existing VPC environment. You can also download the

templates and edit them to create your own parameters based on your specific

deployment scenario.

Option 1: Parameters for deploying into a new VPC

View template

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Credentials:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Work email

(EmailID)

Requires input The email address used for Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services registration and the Tableau trial account.

IICS username

(IICSUsername)

Requires input The user name for accessing Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services.

IICS password

(IICSPassword)

Requires input The password associated with the Informatica Intelligent

Cloud Services user name.

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Network Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Availability Zones

(AvailabilityZones)

Requires input The list of Availability Zones to use for the subnets in the VPC.

The Quick Start uses two Availability Zones from your list and

preserves the logical order you specify.

VPC definition

(VPCDefinition)

QuickstartDefault The VPC definition name from the map (Mappings section)

maintained in this Quick Start’s master template. Each

definition specifies a VPC configuration, including the number

of Availability Zones to be used for the deployment and the

CIDR blocks for the VPC, public subnets, and private subnets.

You can support multiple VPC definitions by extending this

map and choosing the appropriate name. If you do not need to

change the VPC configuration, keep the default setting.

For more information, see the section Optional: Adding VPC

Definitions later in this guide.

Remote Access CIDR

(RemoteAccessCIDR)

Requires input The CIDR IP range that is permitted to access the VPC. We

recommend that you use a constrained CIDR range to reduce

the potential of inbound attacks from unknown IP addresses.

For example, the IPv4 block 192.168.100.0/22 represents the

1024 IPv4 addresses from 192.168.100.0 to 192.168.103.255.

There are many tools available to help you calculate subnet

CIDR blocks; for example, see http://www.subnet-

calculator.com/cidr.php.

Note For ease of deployment, we have simplified the

requirements to just one CIDR range. However, in production

scenarios, we highly recommend using one or separate CIDR

group ranges for Tableau Server, Tableau Services Manager,

and remote desktop protocol (RDP).

Hosted Zone name

(HostedZoneName)

Optional The name of the hosted zone within which the Quick Start will

create convenient DNS entries for AWS resources. If you don’t

want to create DNS entries or you aren’t using AWS Route 53

for DNS, leave this parameter blank; otherwise, enter the

hosted zone name, including the trailing period (for example,

dev.example.com.).

Amazon Redshift Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Redshift database

name

(RedshiftDatabaseName)

quickstart The name of the database for storing visualization data, to be

created in the Amazon Redshift cluster. This string must

contain lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) only. If you

are using an existing cluster for visualization data, provide a

valid database name.

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Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Redshift username

(RedshiftUsername)

redshift The user name that is associated with the master user account

for the Amazon Redshift cluster that is being created. This

string must start with a lowercase letter (a-z) and must contain

lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) only.

Redshift password

(RedshiftPassword)

Requires input The password that is associated with the master user account

for the Amazon Redshift cluster that is being created. The

password must be an 8-64 character string that consists of at

least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one

number.

Confirm Redshift

password

(ConfirmRedshift

Password)


for the cluster that is being created. This must match the

password you entered for the Redshift password

parameter.

Amazon Environment and Machine Configuration

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Key pair name

(KeyPairName)

Requires input A public/private key pair, which allows you to connect securely

to your instance after it launches. When you created an AWS

account, this is the key pair you created in your preferred

region.

Amazon RDS Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

RDS instance

password

(RDSInstancePassword)

Requires input The password for the database instance associated with

Informatica services and Tableau Server tasks. This must be

an 8-30 character string of printable ASCII characters,

excluding slash marks (/), quotation marks ("), and at signs

(@).

Confirm RDS instance

password

(ConfirmRDSInstance

Password)


Informatica services and Tableau Server tasks. This must

match the password you entered for the RDS instance

password parameter.

Enterprise Data Catalog Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Informatica

Administrator

username

Requires input The user name to access Informatica Administrator. This must be a 4-15 character string that starts with an uppercase or


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Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

(InformaticaAdmin

Username)

lowercase letter and includes only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_).

Informatica

Administrator

password

(InformaticaAdmin

Password)

Requires input The password to access Informatica Administrator. This must

be a 5-64 character string that starts with an uppercase or

lowercase letter and includes only alphanumeric characters

and underscores (_).

Confirm Informatica

Administrator

password

(ConfirmInformatica

AdminPassword)


match the password you entered for the Informatica

administrator password parameter.

Tableau Remote Desktop Gateway Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Remote Desktop

Gateway admin

username

(RemoteDesktopGateway

AdminUser)

admin The user name for the new local administrator account for the

Remote Desktop Gateway. This is a 5-25 character,

alphanumeric string.

Remote Desktop

Gateway admin

password

(RemoteDesktopGateway

AdminPassword)

Requires input The password for the administrative account for the Remote

Desktop Gateway. This must be an 8-32 character string that

contains letters, numbers, and symbols, excluding ampersands

(&). The password shouldn’t include the user name.

Domain DNS name

(DomainDNSName)

example.com The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the Remote

Desktop Gateway. This must be a 3-63 character string that

contains alphanumeric characters, periods (.), and hyphens

(-). It must not end in a number, period, or hyphen.

Tableau Server Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Tableau Services

Manager (TSM)

administrator

username

(TableauManager

Username)

admin The user name for the Tableau Services Manager (TSM)

administrator. This is a 3-30 character string that consists of

alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). It must begin

with an uppercase or lowercase letter. Do not use

Administrator or administrator as the user name.

Tableau Services

Manager (TSM)

Requires input The password for the Tableau Services Manager (TSM)

administrator. This is an 8-120 character string. It should


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Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

administrator

password

(TableauManager

Password)

contain at least one special character, one number, one

uppercase letter, and one lowercase letter. Double quotes (")

and dollar signs ($) are not allowed.

Tableau Server

administrator

username

(TableauServerAdmin

User)

admin The user name of the initial administrator for Tableau Server.

This is a 5-20 character string that begins with an uppercase

or lowercase letter and contains only alphanumeric characters


Tableau Server

administrator

password

(TableauServerAdmin

Password)

Requires input The password of the initial administrator for Tableau Server.

This is an 8-120 character string. It should contain at least one

special character, one number, one uppercase letter, and one

lowercase letter. Double quotes (") and dollar signs ($) are not

allowed.

Tableau Server license

key

(TableauServerLicense

Key)

Optional The license key for Tableau Server. For more information, see

the Prerequisites section. Leave this parameter blank if you’re

using a trial license.

AWS Quick Start Configuration:

Note Informatica recommends that you do not change the default values for the

parameters in this category.

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Quick Start S3 Bucket

Name

(QSS3BucketName)

aws-quickstart-

informatica-tableau

The S3 bucket name for the Quick Start assets. The bucket

name can include numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase

letters, and hyphens (-), but should not start or end with a

hyphen. You can specify your own bucket if you copy all the

Quick Start assets and submodules into it. You might do this if

you want to customize the templates and override the Quick

Start behavior for your specific implementation.

Quick Start S3 Key

Prefix

(QSS3KeyPrefix)

quickstart-

informatica-

tableau-analytics/

The S3 key prefix for your copy of Quick Start assets, if you

decide to customize or extend the Quick Start for your own

use. The key prefix can include numbers, lowercase letters,

uppercase letters, hyphens (-), and slash marks (/).

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Option 2: Parameters for deploying into an existing VPC

View template

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Credentials:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Work email

(EmailID)

Requires input The email address used for Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services registration and the Tableau trial account.

Username for IICS

(IICSUsername)

Requires input The user name for accessing Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services.

Password for IICS

(IICSPassword)

Requires input The password associated with the Informatica Intelligent

Cloud Services user name.

Network Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Existing VPC ID

(VPCID)

Requires input The ID of your existing VPC (e.g., vpc-0343606e). Your VPC

should have one public subnet and two private subnets across

different Availability Zones.

Existing VPC CIDR

(VPCCIDR)

10.0.0.0/16 The CIDR block for your existing VPC.

Existing VPC private

subnet 1 ID

(PrivateSubnet1ID)

Requires input The ID of the private subnet in Availability Zone 1 in your

existing VPC (e.g., subnet-a0246dcd).

Existing VPC private

subnet 2 ID

(PrivateSubnet2ID)

Requires input The ID of the private subnet in Availability Zone 2 in your

existing VPC (e.g., subnet-b58c3d67).

Existing VPC public

subnet 1 ID

(PublicSubnet1ID)

Requires input The ID of the public subnet in Availability Zone 1 in your

existing VPC (e.g., subnet-a0124abc).

Hosted Zone name

(HostedZoneName)

Optional The name of the hosted zone within which the Quick Start will

create convenient DNS entries for AWS resources. If you don’t

want to create DNS entries or you aren’t using AWS Route 53

for DNS, leave this parameter blank; otherwise, enter the

hosted zone name, including the trailing period (for example,

dev.example.com.).

Remote Access CIDR

(RemoteAccessCIDR)

Requires input The CIDR IP range that is permitted to access the VPC. We

recommend that you use a constrained CIDR range to reduce

the potential of inbound attacks from unknown IP addresses.

For example, the IPv4 block 192.168.100.0/22 represents the

1024 IPv4 addresses from 192.168.100.0 to 192.168.103.255.

There are many tools available to help you calculate subnet

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Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

CIDR blocks; for example, see http://www.subnet-

calculator.com/cidr.php.

Note For ease of deployment, we have simplified the

requirements to just one CIDR range. However, in production

scenarios, we highly recommend using one or separate CIDR

group ranges for Tableau Server, Tableau Services Manager,

and remote desktop protocol (RDP).

Amazon Redshift Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Amazon Redshift host

(RedshiftHost)

Optional The DNS name or IP address of the master node of an existing

Amazon Redshift cluster that you intend to use for the

Informatica sample jobs. Leave this blank to create a new

Amazon Redshift cluster in the VPC you specified with the

Existing VPC ID parameter.

Redshift database

name

(RedshiftDatabaseName)

quickstart The name of the database for storing visualization data, to be

created in the Amazon Redshift cluster. This string must

contain lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) only. If you

are using an existing cluster for visualization data, provide a

valid database name.

Redshift username

(RedshiftUsername)

redshift The user name that is associated with the master user account

for the Amazon Redshift cluster that is being created. This

string must start with a lowercase letter (a-z) and must contain

lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9) only.

Redshift password

(RedshiftPassword)


for the Amazon Redshift cluster that is being created. The

password must be an 8-64 character string that consists of at

least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one

number.

Confirm Redshift

password

(ConfirmRedshift

Password)


for the cluster that is being created. This must match the

password you entered for the Redshift password

parameter.

Amazon Environment and Machine Configuration

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Key Pair name

(KeyPairName)

Requires input A public/private key pair, which allows you to connect securely

to your instance after it launches. When you created an AWS

account, this is the key pair you created in your preferred

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Amazon RDS Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

RDS instance

password

(RDSInstancePassword)


Informatica services and Tableau Server tasks. This must be

an 8-30 character string of printable ASCII characters,

excluding slash marks (/), quotation marks ("), and at signs

(@).

Confirm RDS instance

password

(ConfirmRDSInstance

Password)


Informatica services and Tableau Server tasks. This must

match the password you entered for the RDS instance

password parameter.

Enterprise Data Catalog Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Informatica

administrator

username

(InformaticaAdmin

Username)

Requires input The user name to access Informatica Administrator. This must be a 4-15 character string that starts with an uppercase or lowercase letter and includes only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_).

Informatica

administrator

password

(InformaticaAdmin

Password)


be a 5-64 character string that starts with an uppercase or

lowercase letter and includes only alphanumeric characters


Confirm Informatica

administrator

password

(ConfirmInformatica

AdminPassword)

Requires input Password to access Informatica Administrator. This must

match the password you entered for the Informatica

administrator password parameter.

Tableau Server Configuration:

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Tableau Services

Manager (TSM)

administrator

username

(TableauManager

Username)

admin The user name for the Tableau Services Manager (TSM)

administrator. This is a 3-30 character string that consists of

alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). It must begin

with an uppercase or lowercase letter. Do not use

Administrator or administrator as the user name.

Tableau Services

Manager (TSM)

administrator

Requires input The password for the Tableau Services Manager (TSM)

administrator. This is an 8-120 character string. It should

contain at least one special character, one number, one


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Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

password

(TableauManager

Password)

uppercase letter, and one lowercase letter. Double quotes (")

and dollar signs ($) are not allowed.

Tableau Server

administrator

username

(TableauServerAdmin

User)

admin The user name of the initial administrator for Tableau Server.

This is a 5-20 character string that begins with an uppercase

or lowercase letter and contains only alphanumeric characters


Tableau Server

administrator

password

(TableauServerAdmin

Password)

Requires input The password of the initial administrator for Tableau Server.

This is an 8-120 character string. It should contain at least one

special character, one number, one uppercase letter, and one

lowercase letter. Double quotes (") and dollar signs ($) are not

allowed.

Tableau Server license

key

(TableauServerLicense

Key)

Optional The license key for Tableau Server. For more information, see

the Prerequisites section. Leave this parameter blank if you’re

using a trial license.

AWS Quick Start Configuration:

Note Informatica recommends that you do not change the default values for the

parameters in this category.

Parameter label

(name)

Default Description

Stack name

(RootStackName)

<NONE> The name of the top-level (parent) stack. Keep the default

setting if you’re launching the Quick Start in an existing VPC.

Quick Start S3 Bucket

Name

(QSS3BucketName)

aws-quickstart-

informatica-tableau

The S3 bucket name for the Quick Start assets. The bucket

name can include numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase

letters, and hyphens (-), but should not start or end with a

hyphen. You can specify your own bucket if you copy all the

Quick Start assets and submodules into it. You might do this if

you want to customize the templates and override the Quick

Start behavior for your specific implementation.

Quick Start S3 Key

Prefix

(QSS3KeyPrefix)

quickstart-

informatica-

tableau-analytics/

The S3 key prefix for your copy of Quick Start assets, if you

decide to customize or extend the Quick Start for your own

use. The key prefix can include numbers, lowercase letters,

uppercase letters, hyphens (-), and slash marks (/).

When you finish reviewing and customizing the parameters, choose Next.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingMetadata.html


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5. On the Options page, you can specify tags (key-value pairs) for resources in your stack

and set advanced options. When you’re done, choose Next.

6. On the Review page, review and confirm the template settings. Under Capabilities,

select the check box to acknowledge that the template will create IAM resources.

7. Choose Create to deploy the stack.

Step 4. Monitor the Deployment

During deployment, you can monitor the creation of the cluster instance and the

Informatica domain, and get more information about system resources.

1. Choose the stack that you are creating, and then choose the Events tab to monitor the

creation of the stack.

Figure 3 shows part of the Events tab.

Figure 3: Monitoring the deployment in the Events tab

When stack creation is complete, the Status field shows CREATE_COMPLETE, and

the console displays a list of stacks that have been created, as shown in

Figure 4.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-resource-tags.html

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Figure 4: Stacks created

2. Choose the Outputs tab.

When the Informatica domain setup is complete, the Outputs tab displays the

following information:

Key Description

EDCCatalogURL URL for the Informatica EDC user console

InstanceID Informatica domain host name

InformaticaAdminConsoleURL URL for the Informatica administrator console

EtcHostFileEntry Etc host file entry to be added to the /etc/hosts file to

enable access to the domain, using the host name of the

Administrative Server

EDCAdminURL URL for the EDC Administrator

CloudFormationLogs Location of the AWS CloudFormation installation log

S3DatalakeBucketName Name of the S3 bucket used for the data lake

InstanceSetupLogs Location of the setup log for the Informatica domain EC2

instance

InformaticaHadoopInstallLogs Location of the master node Hadoop installation log

InformaticaDomainPrivateDNSName Private DNS name of the Informatica domain EC2

instances

InformaticaPublicDNSName Public DNS name of the Informatica domain EC2

instances

InformaticaDomainDatabaseEndPoint Informatica domain database endpoint

InformaticaAdminConsoleServerLogs Location of the Informatica domain installation log


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Note If the Outputs tab is not populated with this information, wait for domain

setup to be complete.

3. Use the links in the Outputs tab for the main stack to access management tools, as

described in the next section.

Figure 5: Outputs tab for main stack

Step 5: Test the Deployment

To test the deployment, access each resource created by the Quick Start by using the URLs

provided in the Outputs tab. To log in to each service, use the user name and password you

entered during deployment.

Use To

InformaticaAdminConsoleURL Open the Instance Administration screen. You can

use this screen to manage Informatica services and

resources. You can also get additional information about

the instance, such as the public DNS and public IP

address.

EDCAdminURL Administer the Informatica EDC environment.

EDCCatalogURL Access Information EDC. See the Enterprise Data Catalog

User Guide on the Informatica website for information

about logging in to Enterprise Data Catalog.

TableauServerURL Access Tableau Server.




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Note All Informatica service endpoint URLs are SSL-enabled using self-signed

certificates. Depending on your browser choice, you may get a warning. Ignore the

warning and proceed. For example, in Chrome, choose Advanced, and then choose

Proceed to <URL> (Unsafe).

1. Use the URL to access the EDC catalog and log in by using your user name and

password. You should see 13660 assets scanned from 11 resources, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: EDC home page

Choose the resources link to view information about the transformations created

during deployment.

2. Use the URL to access Tableau Server. Choose the Default project, and then choose

Informatica, Demographics – RDS & Redshift. Figure 7 shows the Content page

on Tableau Server.


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Figure 7: Demographics information on Tableau Server

3. Use the URL to access Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. Choose Data

Integration to launch the Data Integration service, and then choose Explore,

Default. The Default project contains the mappings and mapping tasks created during

deployment.

Figure 8: Default project folder in Data Integration


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4. Choose My Jobs. The My Jobs page shows the jobs that were run during

deployment.

Optional: Using Your Own Dataset

The Quick Start uses a sample dataset that you can replace with your own data. The sample

dataset is stored in a new S3 bucket that is created as part of the deployment. To use your

own dataset, prepare your on-premises or cloud data and use Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services to upload your data to Amazon Redshift or to the S3 bucket. You can find the name

of the S3 bucket in the Outputs tab with the key S3DatalakeBucketName.

There are no specific data format requirements; for more information, see the Informatica

Cloud Data Integration documentation.

Optional: Adding VPC Definitions

When you launch the Quick Start in the mode where a new VPC is created, the Quick Start

uses VPC parameters that are defined in a mapping within the Quick Start templates. If you

choose to download the templates from the GitHub repository, you can add new named

VPC definitions to the mapping, and choose one of the named VPC definitions that you

have defined when you launch the Quick Start.

The following table shows the parameters defined within the default VPC definition

(QuickstartDefault). You can define as many VPC definitions as you need within your

environments. When you deploy the Quick Start, use the VPC definition parameter to

specify the configuration you want to use.

Parameter Default Description

CreateAdditional

PrivateSubnets

false Set to true to create a network ACL-protected subnet in each

Availability Zone. If false, the CIDR parameters for those

subnets will be ignored.

NATInstanceType t2.small The EC2 instance type for the NAT instances. This parameter is

used only if the AWS Region doesn’t support NAT gateways.

NumberOfAZs 2 The number of Availability Zones to use in the VPC.

PrivateSubnet1A

CIDR

10.0.0.0/19 The CIDR block for private subnet 1A located in Availability

Zone 1.

PrivateSubnet1B

CIDR

10.0.192.0/21 The CIDR block for private subnet 1B with dedicated network

ACL located in Availability Zone 1.

PrivateSubnet2A

CIDR


Zone 2.

https://network.informatica.com/docs/DOC-17564


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Parameter Default Description

PrivateSubnet2B

CIDR



PrivateSubnet3A

CIDR


Zone 3.

PrivateSubnet3B

CIDR



PrivateSubnet4A

CIDR


Zone 4.

PrivateSubnet4B

CIDR



PublicSubnet1

CIDR

10.0.128.0/20 The CIDR block for the public (DMZ) subnet 1 located in

Availability Zone 1.

PublicSubnet2

CIDR



PublicSubnet3

CIDR



PublicSubnet4

CIDR



VPCCIDR 10.0.0.0/16 The CIDR block for the VPC.

Best Practices

Using Cloud Analytics Modernization on AWS

Now that you have tested the deployment, you can use the following links to get detailed

information about using the services deployed in this Quick Start.

Data integration user guide (Informatica website)

Administrator user guide (Informatica website)

Enterprise Data Catalog user guide (Informatica website)

Tableau Services Manager Overview (Tableau website)

For information about using this Quick Start after deployment, see:

Cloud Analytics Modernization on the AWS Cloud User Guide (Informatica website)

https://network.informatica.com/onlinehelp/IICS/prod/CDI/en/index.htm

https://network.informatica.com/onlinehelp/IICS/prod/admin/en/index.htm#page/cc-cloud-administrator/Organizations.html


https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/tsm_overview.htm



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Manual Cleanup

When you have finished using the AWS environment built by this Quick Start, delete the

resources to stop incurring AWS charges. To delete the resources, follow these steps:

1. Delete the AWS CloudFormation stack. In the AWS CloudFormation console, choose the

main stack name, and then choose Actions, Delete Stack.

Figure 9: Stack deletion process

2. In the Amazon S3 console, choose the S3 bucket located at stack-name-s3bucketstack-

auto-generated-unique-string, and delete the EDC installation, Hadoop cluster,

Tableau cluster, Oracle table and database, and Amazon Redshift files in the bucket.

3. If you used an existing Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services organization, delete the S3

to Redshift_ITQS and Aggregate Store Sales_ITQS mappings and mapping tasks from

the Default project folder in Data Integration:

a. Select the checkbox to the left of the mapping tasks. From the dropdown menu, choose Delete.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/


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Figure 10: Mapping task deletion

b. Delete the mappings.

4. Navigate to the Informatica Administrator console. Choose Connections in the

navigation pane to delete the following connections:

- AWS Oracle Quick Start_ITQS - AWS Redshift Quick Start_ITQS - AWS S3 Quick Start_ITQS - AWS Tableau Quick Start_ITQS

To delete the connections, choose the trash bin icon to the left of each connection.

Figure 11: Connections page in Administrator


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Troubleshooting

Q. I encountered a CREATE_FAILED error when I launched the Quick Start.

A. If you encounter this error in the AWS CloudFormation console, we recommend that you

relaunch the template with Rollback on failure set to No. (This setting is under

Advanced in the AWS CloudFormation console, Options page.) With this setting, the

stack’s state will be retained and the instance will be left running, so you can troubleshoot

the issue. (You'll want to look at the log files in %ProgramFiles%\Amazon\EC2ConfigService

and C:\cfn\log.)

Important When you set Rollback on failure to No, you’ll continue to

incur AWS charges for this stack. Please make sure to delete the stack when

you’ve finished troubleshooting.

For additional information, see Troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation on the AWS

website.

Q. I encountered an error while installing Informatica domain and services.

A. We recommend that you view the /installation.log log file to get more information

about the errors you encountered.

Q. I encountered a size limitation error when I deployed the AWS Cloudformation

templates.

A. We recommend that you launch the Quick Start templates from the location we have

provided or from another S3 bucket. If you deploy the templates from a local copy on your

computer or from a non-S3 location, you might encounter template size limitations when

you create the stack. For more information about AWS CloudFormation limits, see the AWS

documentation.

Q. I encountered an address limit error when I launched Amazon EC2.

A. Make sure that you are registered and the required licenses are assigned to your

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services account before launching the Quick Start.

Q. I encountered an AWS CloudFormation script rollback within minutes of launch.

A. Your user account might not have the required connector licenses, or your Informatica

account might already have mappings and connections with an _ITQS suffix. We

recommend that you add the required connector licenses if you are using your existing

Informatica account. Remove all mappings and connections that have the _ITQS suffix if

you are reusing the same Informatica account in AWS CloudFormation.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cloudformation-limits.html

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Q. The Tableau artifacts created by the Quick Start don’t appear.

A. You have exceeded your daily limit of 1,000,000 job rows. This error will be visible in

the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services console as the Mapping Configuration Tasks

(MCTs) fail. We recommend that you use a valid Informatica account that has no upper

limit on transaction rows.

Q. I am in São Paulo and NAT Gateway is not available in my Availability Zone.

A. Supported Availability Zones for creating NAT gateways are sa-east-1a and sa-east-

1c. For the Availability Zones parameter, choose sa-east-1a and sa-east-1c, not sa-

east-1b, from the list.

Q. The stack creation completed successfully but Tableau visualization is empty.

A. If you have subscribed to multiple services and connectors from Informatica Intelligent

Cloud Services, mapping tasks might fail to load required sample data into Amazon

Redshift and the Oracle database used for Tableau visualization. Follow the instructions in

the Informatica Knowledge Base to increase the Java heap space, and rerun the mappings.

Q. I encountered an “Internal Failures” error during launch.

A. Internal failures might occur when the AWS CloudFormation service experiences

increased error rates across all stacks. Try launching the Quick Start in another region or at

another time. If the issue persists, contact AWS Support.

Q. The Tableau Server stack fails with Tableau license expiration.

A. The 14-day trial license for Tableau Server associated with your email address has

expired. Use a unique email address or contact Tableau Support.

Q. The Lambda stack fails although Informatica connections, mappings, and license are

present.

A. The Lambda stack will fail if Informatica connections are already present. We

recommend that you delete any duplicate connections in your Informatica Intelligent Cloud

Services environment and try again.

Q. Can I provision the instances for high availability and disaster recovery?

A. Yes, you can configure alarms by using Amazon CloudWatch, and recovery actions could

be triggered in case of a system crash. For details and how-to steps, see the AWS

documentation.

https://kb.informatica.com/solution/23/Pages/60/506174.aspx

https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-recover.html

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Additional Resources

AWS services

AWS CloudFormation http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudformation/

Amazon EC2 http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/

Amazon Redshift

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/redshift/

Amazon S3

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/s3/

Amazon VPC http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/vpc/

Informatica

Informatica for AWS Network Community (a source for product documentation, Knowledge Base articles, and other information) https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/cloud-for-amazon-aws/overview/

Tableau

Tableau Desktop http://www.tableau.com/products/desktop

Tableau Server http://www.tableau.com/products/server

Designing Efficient Workbooks whitepaper https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/designing-efficient-workbooks

Quick Start reference deployments

AWS Quick Start home page

https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

GitHub Repository You can visit our GitHub repository to download the templates and scripts for this Quick

Start, to post your comments, and to share your customizations with others.

http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudformation/

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/redshift/

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/s3/

http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/vpc/

https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/cloud-for-amazon-aws/overview/

https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/cloud-for-amazon-aws/overview/

http://www.tableau.com/products/desktop

http://www.tableau.com/products/server

https://www.tableau.com/learn/whitepapers/designing-efficient-workbooks

https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

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Document Revisions

Date Change In sections

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