Development & staging
Dev and staging instances are rarely needed outside business hours. Schedule them to run only when your team is working - and stop paying for the other 128 hours a week.
OptiFlex Dynamic Docket is the instance scheduling tool included with every Soliant.cloud package. Define when each of your FileMaker instances should be running, and Dynamic Docket starts and stops them on schedule. AWS bills you only for the hours your instance is actually running - so cost goes down, and so does the carbon footprint.
Most FileMaker environments don’t need to run 24/7. Development and staging instances usually aren’t touched outside business hours. Production environments often follow a predictable work-week pattern. Dynamic Docket lets you express that schedule and have AWS execute it automatically - so you stop paying for compute time when nobody’s working.
AWS EC2 instances are billed by the second they’re running. Stop the instance, and you stop the compute charges - you continue to pay only for attached EBS storage. For dev environments running on a 40-hour-week schedule instead of 168, that’s a ~76% reduction in compute cost. Dynamic Docket automates the start/stop so the savings are real, not aspirational.
Configure Dynamic Docket once for each instance - then forget about it. Adjust as your patterns change.
Dev and staging instances are rarely needed outside business hours. Schedule them to run only when your team is working - and stop paying for the other 128 hours a week.
Define a daily schedule that aligns with your team's working hours. Instances start before the day begins and stop after it ends - automatically, every day.
Stop instances Friday evening; restart them Monday morning. A simple weekend rule recovers ~30% of the week as non-running time.
Spin up an environment when you need it; shut it down when you don't. Suited to occasional-use environments, training instances, or seasonal workloads.
Every Soliant.cloud instance includes SnapBack. As your solution matures, add SideCar microservices designed specifically for FileMaker on AWS.
Built-in backups stored off-instance in Amazon S3 - 15-minute RPO, ransomware-isolated, included with every package.
Learn more →Spin WebDirect servers up and down with user demand. Cut multi-machine deployment costs by up to 80%.
Learn more →A fully functional copy of your FileMaker Server in the cloud - launch from the client portal in minutes.
Learn more →Encrypted, walled-off snapshots to independent object storage - for compliance and risk-mitigation requirements.
Learn more →Offload container data from FileMaker to S3. Reduce file size, speed up loads, cut storage costs.
Learn more →Fault-tolerant queueing for webhooks from Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Shopify, and any JSON-sending service.
Learn more →Real-time synchronous webhook proxy - for when the calling service needs immediate confirmation.
Learn more →If your environment doesn’t need to run 24/7, Dynamic Docket pays for itself the moment you turn it on. Let’s talk about which schedule fits your team.
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