Geodatabases in PostgreSQL used with ArcGIS on AWS

The ArcGIS Enterprise tools for Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide options to include a geodatabase in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible edition). The geodatabase created by these tools is registered with the ArcGIS Server site that you create using the tools.

The ArcGIS Enterprise tools for AWS create the following:

• A database named egdb.

• An enterprise geodatabase that uses the PostGIS geometry storage type.

• The following two users:

  • sde—The sde user owns the geodatabase system objects and is considered the geodatabase administrator. The password for this user is the same as the password you specified for the ArcGIS Server primary site administrator.

  • EsriRDSAdmin—The EsriRDSAdmin user is the RDS master user. The templates use this user to create the database and the sde user. The password for this user is the same as the password you specified for the ArcGIS Server primary site administrator.

Tip:

Once the geodatabase is created and registered with the site, you need to move data into the geodatabase. When you publish services from this data, the data remains in the geodatabase.