Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Bas Kamphuis. SAP and AWS announce their project Embrace, a new partnership program aimed at simplifying customers’ SAP S/4HANA journey and accelerating their ability to innovate.Orlando, FL — May 9, 2019 — Today, SAP announced the Embrace project, a collaboration program with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Global Service Integrators. Embrace puts the customer’s move to SAP S/4HANA on AWS in the language and context of their industry through reference architectures. AWS is a proud participant in the program, which will simplify the move to S/4HANA and accelerate enterprises’ ability to innovate like startups in ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. Co-authored by KK Ramamoorthy, Principal Partner Solutions Architect, and Brett Francis, Principal Product Solutions ArchitectToday, SAP announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services IoT and the general availability of interoperability between SAP Leonardo IoT and AWS IoT Core. The new collaboration makes it straightforward and cost-effective for you to deploy IoT solutions using the global scalability of the AWS IoT platform and business processes powered by SAP Leonardo IoT. The collaboration provides two new interoperability options. The cloud-to-cloud option, which integrates SAP Leonardo IoT with AWS IoT Core, is generally available now. With ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. The business benefits of running SAP workloads on AWS are already well proven with thousands of customers now running such workloads. Tangible benefits like those experienced by ENGIE, an international energy provider, include not only cost savings but also flexibility and speed. For example, as mentioned in an ENGIE case study, ENGIE was able to reduce the expected delivery time of new business frameworks by two times, when they upgraded their SAP platform to SAP S/4HANA on AWS. They did this all while rightsizing their HANA infrastructure, by using AWS-enabled high availability architecture ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Steven Jones is a Technology Director and Global Technical Lead for the AWS Partner Organization.At Amazon, we always try to start with the customer’s needs and work backward to build our products and services. Back in 2017, our customers, who were already running production deployments of SAP HANA on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X1e instances with 4 TB memory, needed to support the growth of their enterprise data. So they started asking us for Amazon EC2 instances with even larger amounts of RAM. We asked our customers what features and capabilities ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Bas Kamphuis. This post was written by Fernando Castillo, Head WW SAP, at Amazon Web Services (AWS).This week will be my fifth year anniversary going to SAPPHIRE NOW as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team. During those five years, we’ve been able to help thousands of customers in their SAP journeys to AWS. During this time, I have had the opportunity to travel around the world and connect with many SAP customers to understand their challenges and to help them find ways to overcome and achieve their goals. Through these interactions—from Seaco, Coca-Cola ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Sabari Radhakrishnan. This post was written by Kuang-Shih Howard Lee, who is an SAP solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).In today’s business world, speed is everything. Enterprises must transform their IT assets at an increasing pace to stay ahead while dealing with complex technologies and deployment models. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re working on simplifying and fast-tracking your SAP software deployments to the cloud, to save you time and resources. We’re excited to announce a new AWS Quick Start for SAP S/4HANA that enables businesses to deploy their SAP S/4HANA workloads on the ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Santosh Choudhary, Senior Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).AWS provides services and infrastructure to build reliable, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems in the cloud. Due to the business-critical importance of SAP Systems, high availability is essential to the business. High-availability for SAP applications can be achieved in many ways on AWS, depending on the operating system and database that you use. For example, SUSE High Availability Extensions (SUSE HAE), Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Services (RHEL for SAP with HA and US), ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Steven Jones is a Technology Director and Global Technical Lead for the AWS Partner Organization.The other day my son, who has headed off to college and is still looking at career options, asked me why I like working at Amazon. I tried as best I could to explain how I get to help Amazon Web Services build service offerings for the some of the world’s most demanding customer workloads performed by computers today, and how lucky I feel to be a part of a company that continues to push boundaries on behalf of ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Sabari Radhakrishnan. While AWS and Red Hat have been working together for a long time to make it easy for our mutual customers to run SAP workloads, including SAP HANA, on AWS, our customers have had only two choices. They could run various SAP workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on-demand by using the RHEL for SAP HANA Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from AWS Marketplace. Or they could use the Bring Your Own Subscription (BYOS) model images available through the Red Hat Cloud Access program.The RHEL for SAP HANA AMI provides an easy way ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Harpreet Singh, Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).An Aberdeen survey revealed that organizations who implemented a data lake outperformed similar companies by 9% in organic revenue growth. A data lake gives these companies the capability to get meaningful insights from their data, which helps them to take actions that differentiate them from the competition. With its durability and cost effectiveness, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) offers a compelling reason for customers to use it as storage layer for a data lake on AWS. Many of these customers ... Read More