Data Gateway

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to install the gateway in a place where it works all day long. Is it posible to keep it working in a cloud-service bucket such as AWS S3?

Thanks

[PhilStollery]

Our data is being stored in AWS RDS and we wanted to connect PowerBI to it. We use an AWS EC2 Windows instance to host the On-Premises Data Gateway and PowerBI Desktop to create the dataset connections to PostgreSQL.

So you can install the gateway in AWS - but S3 is storage not for processing.

[Icey · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

To my knowledge, it is not supported to install a gateway on a cloud-service bucket. 

An on-premises data gateway is software that you install in an on-premises network. The gateway facilitates access to data in that network. 

And there are some requirements and considerations when you install a gateway on a server or a device:

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Minimum requirements

• .NET Framework 4.6 (Gateway release August 2019 and earlier)
• .NET Framework 4.7.2 (Gateway release September 2019 and later)
• A 64-bit version of Windows 8 or a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 with current TLS 1.2 and cipher suites
• 4 GB disk space for performance monitoring logs (in default configuration)

Recommended

• An 8-core CPU
• 8 GB of memory
• A 64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 R2 or later
• Solid-state drive (SSD) storage for spooling.

Related considerations

• Gateways aren't supported on Server Core installations.
• The user installing the gateway must be the admin of the gateway.
• The gateway can't be installed on a domain controller.
• If you're planning to use Windows authentication, make sure you install the gateway on a computer that's a member of the same Active Directory environment as the data sources.
• Don't install a gateway on a computer, like a laptop, that might be turned off, asleep, or disconnected from the internet. The gateway can't run under any of those circumstances.
• If a gateway uses a wireless network, its performance might suffer.
• You could install other applications on the gateway machine, but this may degrade gateway performance. If you do install other applications on the gateway machine, be sure to monitor the gateway closely to check if there's any resource contention.
• You can install up to two gateways on a single computer: one running in personal mode and the other running in standard mode. You can't have more than one gateway running in the same mode on the same computer.

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Reference: Install an on-premises data gateway

Best regards

Icey

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