What Happens If The Public IP Address Changes?

This public IP address is displayed in your Instances list in the AWS dashboard environment, as well as in the top right when you remote desktop into your server.

This allows you to use FileMaker Pro to find the server and access your data files from your office.

When deploying the EC2 Instance, it would have been assigned a public IP address.We have an AWS security group set up with the necessary ports open, and the Windows firewall is correctly configured to allow traffic to our FileMaker data files.We have launched an EC2 Instance - most likely a Windows 2012 Server running FileMaker Server 14 or 15.We have our AWS account set up - this is our account that gives us access to the vast world of Amazon Web Services.( Update : While this article refers to older versions of Windows and FileMaker Servers, everything below is applicable to later versions as well.) Let's start by ensuring we're on the same page as regards some terminology and assumptions. So, let’s check out Elastic IPs… Terminology & Assumptions

If you're not familiar with AWS and setting up FMS on an Instance, check out our other blog posts FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 1 and FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services: Part 2 before delving into this one.

Utilizing an Elastic IP Address to Access Your FileMaker ServerĬontinuing our series of FileMaker Server (FMS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this installment looks at Elastic IPs, what they are and why you might want one.

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