1. Matt Eitrem GIS Coordinator City of Ashland, Wisconsin

2. Matt Eitrem, GIS Coordinator since 2008 City GIS Program since 2003 Focus on Public Works and Utility Data Development Utilizing ArcGIS Server since 2010 Spring of 2012 signed a SUELA with ESRI 3. Utility crew were issued Verizon Android tablets Needed access to GIS mapping in the field ASAP Users were accustomed to rich intranet web mapping IT issues and barriers to running our own server After a phone call to the ever friendly folks at ESRI, I decided to look into hosting an Amazon cloud server for pushing our utility info out to the field crews. Within a week we had an Amazon EC2 server setup and serving map services to three Android tablets using the ArcGIS for Android app. 4. Documentation Research and Testing 5. Documentation Research and Testing 6. EC2 Pricing 7. EC2 Cost Estimating 8. EC2 Dashboard 9. Click Launch Instance Request AMI sharing from ESRI Customer Services 10. Select your region and availability zones Create and download a key pair file Configure security groups and add security rules Click Launch and wait about five minutes Verify the instance is ready and wait another five mins 11. Instance Management Generates RDP File Key Pair Validation 12. Amazon API Tools Java command line tools Configure Local System to run API tools Set a few environment variables- %Java_Home%, %EC2_HOME%, %AWS_ACCESS_KEY%, % EC2_URL % - https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com Blogs.esri.com-Intro to Scripting Amazon EC2 Daily Startup and Shutdown Window Scheduler Run as service-no logon req. Separate account 13. Android Mobile applications 14. Authorize ArcMap and Server (Workgroup) 15. Getting data to the EC2 Instance for free Dropbox(2-5GB) MS SkyDrive(25GB) Slick User Interface Can run as service Handles Large Files >2GB Bit for Bit File Compare Great for small changes to larger files Buggy Interface File size limit of