In my blog post from February 24, you will find a walkthrough of how to set up Okta as the Identity Provider (IdP) for client authentication in FileMaker. In addition to being able to access the admin console, authenticated users can use their AWS logins to upload files to the server (note that you need to use FileMaker 15v2 at a minimum to upload files to FileMaker Cloud).When Claris launched Cloud 2.1, its “FileMaker Server in the Cloud” product introduced the capability to let users sign in with accounts other than their FileMaker ID, specifically using either Okta or ADFS authentication.These other admins are referred to as “authenticated users”. You can delegate control over your FileMaker Cloud (and access to the admin console) by inviting others who also have an AWS account.You get a 90-day Comodo SSL certificate when you create your instance after that you can renew it or provide your own SSL certificate. SSL (encryption in transit) is enabled by default and cannot be disabled.You can always download the FileMaker Pro for Team client right from the admin console.If you don’t need your FileMaker Cloud for a while you can stop the instance (and the cost that comes with it) by stopping it in the AWS Console.The default account of “admin” with no password will not allow you to have the file hosted on FileMaker Cloud. All files must have a password set for the Full Access account.If a file is not encrypted yet when you upload it you will be prompted to enable encryption after you upload the file and before you can have FileMaker Cloud host them. All files that you upload to FileMaker Cloud must be encrypted with FileMaker’s “Encryption at Rest” (EAR) feature.ESS (External SQL Sources) is supported and the instance comes with the necessary drivers for the supported SQL databases.You can use ‘Perform Script on Server’ with FileMaker Cloud and server-side plugins are supported however, those plugins need to be special versions that are Linux-compatible, so check with your plugin vendors for updated versions.There is no ‘file list filtering’ – the feature in regular FileMaker Server that requires the user to provide credentials before they can see a list of databases that they have access to.There is no support for the Primary/Standby feature.External Authentication is not possible with FileMaker Cloud.Backups are done exclusively via the 20-minute automated backup mentioned previously. FileMaker Cloud does not support server schedules.While FileMaker Cloud is based on FileMaker Server 15, it does not have all of the traditional FileMaker Server features.We will release a blog post in the next few days that describes a work-around for this to give you more control over your backups.
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