There are multiple ways available to get the Tableau Server, namely:
- Deploy on-premise
- Deploy on cloud using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Get a preconfigured Tableau Server at the Cloud Marketplace
- Use Tableau Online
In our case, we will be using AWS, and we will deploy Tableau Server on top of an EC2 instance, to get the advantage and flexibility of the cloud, and to demonstrate the main concepts of Tableau Server.
We will use the same AWS account as we used in Chapter 10, Tableau for Big Data. We should launch EC2 instances for both Linux and Windows.