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jarvis
Asked: 2016-04-26 22:12:24 +0800 CST

Does AWS support DBF files or Samba Shares?

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We have DBF files running in our local network. It's on an Ubuntu Server running Samba shares. The DBF files are used by our in-house system running on xBase.

Now we're moving everything to Amazon Web Services. I was wondering if AWS has an infrastructure available to run DBF files? Where we can store data and still access it from our xBase system. I was looking into DynamoDB but I don't know if it will work as needed. Or does it have a special infrastructure to run Samba-like shares?

My last option would probably to run a Samba Server in an EC2 instance.

Any advise please.

Thanks.

database amazon-web-services amazon-dynamodb

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  1. Best Answer

    Short answer for AWS services that load DBF : NO

    Longer answer : RDS services doesn't support DBF file types. One issues of DBF is, there is no standard. A dbf can be from ANY database engine, format is varied. If you want CORRECT answer, you must specify what DB engine it is, and not all db engine will recognise them.

    If you have an apps or DB engine that read the DBF, you just put those APPS inside EC2 instance, then throw the DBF file into EBS storage. You can host any Linux engine and load samba server, just make sure you put your DBF into EBS, NOT instance-store.

    AWS start rolling out file server call "Elastic file system" in US, but there is no guarantee that it will work for your apps, if it doesn't support the API.

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