Currently on FME Cloud only the Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Open API) is supported. The reason for this is that the Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb) format would require an installation of ESRI software on the same machine which is not supported for several reasons (OS is Linux & there is no access to the machine itself). Even SDE legacy (which will be deprecated by ESRI soon) can not be supported as we can not install the library on the instance.

Is Geopackage Tiles a way through?

Hi @gerhardatsafe, I have similar situation with FME Cloud, but with writing to Esri Enterprise Geodatabase (SDE) . Is there a work around or a similar reader and writer I can use. Is there a way to load the data into the PostGIS DB in FME cloud and and then migrate that to the Esri Enterprise Geodatabase (SDE). Thanks, Ariam

As you can see here (https://www.safe.com/integrate/arcsde-geodatabase/) the format you are looking for is not supported on FME Cloud. Unfortunately, there is currently no workaround for this limitation. You can only read & write from & to this format on Windows operating systems with ESRI software installed on the same machine.

Hi @gerhardatsafe couldn't it technically be supported? https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000012501 I was thinking that the sde readers/writers use ArcPy (unless I'm completely off, which is pretty likely :P

You would still need to install ArcGIS Server on the same machine even if you use the version that can be executed with a Python 3.x runtime that is installed independently of ArcGIS Server.