topic Best Cloud Hosted Server Sizes for Enterprise Auto-Scaling in Cloud Computing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/cloud-computing-questions/best-cloud-hosted-server-sizes-for-enterprise-auto/m-p/738269#M2 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I'm curious if anyone has&nbsp;experience auto-scaling a multi-tier ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure or AWS?&nbsp; If so, what&nbsp;instance types do you use for your Federated GIS Server?</P><P></P><P>I see in the&nbsp;Enterprise Cloud Builder for Azure that Esri defaults to D2_v2's (2 core 7GB RAM) for the 2 Web Adapters, and then DS3_v2's (4 core 14GB RAM) for the Portal, ArcGIS Server, and Relational Data Store.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>I had initially been looking at the latest computing instances, namely AWS c5.xlarge (4 core and 8GB RAM) or Azure's F4s_v2 that&nbsp;advertise really fast data&nbsp;retrieval speeds.&nbsp;These have less RAM per core than the general compute instances, but they are much cheaper, and I figured with auto-scaling the RAM bottleneck could be mitigated.</P><P></P><P>Thanks for any help you can provide,</P><P></P><P>Andrew</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:22:51 GMT AndrewRudin1 2017-11-21T20:22:51Z Best Cloud Hosted Server Sizes for Enterprise Auto-Scaling https://community.esri.com/t5/cloud-computing-questions/best-cloud-hosted-server-sizes-for-enterprise-auto/m-p/738269#M2 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I'm curious if anyone has&nbsp;experience auto-scaling a multi-tier ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure or AWS?&nbsp; If so, what&nbsp;instance types do you use for your Federated GIS Server?</P><P></P><P>I see in the&nbsp;Enterprise Cloud Builder for Azure that Esri defaults to D2_v2's (2 core 7GB RAM) for the 2 Web Adapters, and then DS3_v2's (4 core 14GB RAM) for the Portal, ArcGIS Server, and Relational Data Store.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>I had initially been looking at the latest computing instances, namely AWS c5.xlarge (4 core and 8GB RAM) or Azure's F4s_v2 that&nbsp;advertise really fast data&nbsp;retrieval speeds.&nbsp;These have less RAM per core than the general compute instances, but they are much cheaper, and I figured with auto-scaling the RAM bottleneck could be mitigated.</P><P></P><P>Thanks for any help you can provide,</P><P></P><P>Andrew</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:22:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/cloud-computing-questions/best-cloud-hosted-server-sizes-for-enterprise-auto/m-p/738269#M2 AndrewRudin1 2017-11-21T20:22:51Z