Securing the data environment
When looking to secure Alteryx inside your data environment, you need to consider where your data is and how it will move around your environment. Of course, the ideal situation is that most of your Alteryx environment is inside a private network, with only the gallery accessible to your users and not external parties.
This section will focus on deploying your environment in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. I use this as an example as it will show the processes we are trying to achieve when deploying an Alteryx Server, but the plans will apply to any other cloud provider. If you want a more in-depth look at working with AWS, you could read Packt's AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Guide, by Gabriel Ramirez and Stuart Scott (https://www.packtpub.com/product/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-guide/9781789130669).
When looking to secure the environment, we will look at two scenarios: a single node server and...
