Windchill PDM link in the cloud

Hi Buck,

I am new to Windchill administration and I just transferred into the administration side. Before hand I was in the data center and infrastructure side. When I was there, we used Amazon Web Services to host the dev,QA and prod systems. We were made by the security department to move it on prem because they did not have the expertise to run security in the cloud. Our systems interface with internal systems now and security can work with that. Amazon was costing about $4K a month. You can probably get the price down by using reserved instances and stuff.

Good Luck,

Mitch

If only use the OOTB functions of the Windchill PDMLink system. it is simliler whether the Windchill PDMLink on the cloud or the Windchill PDMLink on own server. the OOTB Windchill PDMLink on the cloud will save a lot of cost on system maintenance.

if have to exchange data with other company,  most of time need to add some additional attributes to the PDMLink, and do some customization. the Windchill PDMLink on own server is a better choice.

I ran a Windchill instance on AWS. I contracted out to a VAR (Tristar) to perform the actual installation. I ran it for about two years before leaving the company. The big issue I remember having was with connecting to additional publishing instances.