Vertica on Amazon Web Services

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For information about deploying Vertica on Amazon Web Services (AWS), see Vertica on Amazon Web Services in Using Vertica on the cloud.

AWS instance types

Vertica supports a range of AWS instance types to deploy cluster hosts or MC hosts on AWS. See Supported AWS instance types for a complete list of supported instance types.

Amazon machine images

Vertica provides tested and pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to deploy cluster hosts or MC hosts on AWS. The Vertica AMI allows users to configure their own storage using the officially supported version of Vertica Analytic Database for AWS.

See Vertica AMI operating systems for AWS for a list of operating systems currently available in Vertica AMIs.

Consider the following when using the Vertica AMI:

  • Vertica develops AMIs on a slightly different schedule than the product release schedule. The AMIs for Vertica releases are available sometime following the initial release of Vertica software.

  • Each Vertica AMI comes pre-configured with default resource limit settings.

  • Amazon does not support using 32-bit binaries on Amazon Linux 2.0 AMIs. Therefore, you cannot use the Vertica 32-bit client libraries on these AMIs.

IPv6 support

Vertica supports using IPv6 to identify nodes in the database cluster. However, AWS DNS resolution does not support IPv6. To have a cluster in AWS that uses IPv6, use the IPv6 IP addresses instead of using host names when installing Vertica and forming the cluster.