Category: SAP

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

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This blog post was written by Wilson Karunakar Puvvula, SAP Solutions Architect, Amazon Web ServicesA lot of customers running SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) choose to run their development and QA/test workloads on smaller instances from the R4 family while they run their production on X1/X1e instances. In this blog we will discuss using smaller X1e instances for your development and QA/test environments. This will particularly help customers who are implementing SAP as a greenfield solution and those who have a smaller data footprint on HANA. At AWS, we are always ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Bill Timm. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and consists of tens of thousands of partners worldwide. APN Consulting Partners can help customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS. APN Technology Partners provide software solutions that are either hosted on, or integrated with, the AWS Cloud. To make it easier for customers to find APN Partners that offer services and solutions specifically for SAP on AWS, we have created the AWS SAP Partner Services and Solutions Directory. You can find ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This blog post was written by Bas Kamphuis, GM, Strategic ISVs at AWSNobody likes going through a one-way door. After a one-way door shuts, there’s no easy way to get back to where you started. Your options are limited, and changing course requires you to invest even more time and resources into the journey you’ve unwittingly begun. You might wish you never opened the door in the first place. For many SAP customers, deciding how to deploy and run complex and mission-critical SAP environments is akin to walking through a one-way door. SAP ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Steven Jones is a Technology Director and KK Ramamoorthy is an SAP Digital Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS).Our customers are seeing big business benefits by moving their SAP workloads to AWS. For example, Visy, a leading packaging and recycling company in Australia, is seeing performance improvements of up to 46% and provisioning times for SAP deployments reduced to days versus weeks or months after moving their SAP systems to AWS. Many other customers that have also migrated their SAP workloads to AWS are seeing similar benefits (see the case studies). While these ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by KK Ramamoorthy, SAP Digital Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS).Your customers, partners, and employees want a seamless, secure user experience across various channels. For example, a customer who places an order using a voice-enabled device like Amazon Alexa should have the same experience on a mobile device. Or a field technician who is accessing training manuals using a mobile app should also be able to access and interact with these manuals on an augmented reality app. Application programming interfaces (APIs) play a crucial role in building such a unified ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Harpreet Singh and Devendra Singh, Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS).AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is an agentless service that migrates your on-premises VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines to the AWS Cloud. In this blog post, I’ll discuss some of the main benefits of AWS SMS and explain how you can use this service to migrate your virtualized, on-premises (or private cloud) SAP workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on the AWS Cloud. Here are some of the keys benefits of using ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. Somckit Khemmanivanh is an SAP Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).Do you currently use the AWS SAP HANA Quick Start to automatically provision and install certified SAP HANA systems—ranging from 244 GiB to 4 TiB RAM scale-up, or up to 50 TiB RAM scale-out—on the AWS Cloud? Maybe you use the SAP HANA Quick Start as part of your migration strategy with the FAST migration program? If you’re involved in these or similar scenarios, you need to provision and install one or more SAP application servers for your SAP HANA system. A ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Somckit Khemmanivanh and Rahul Kabra, SAP Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS).We have been working closely with our partner SAP to validate SAP HANA dynamic tiering on the AWS Cloud. We’re excited to announce that AWS is now a supported platform for SAP HANA dynamic tiering—see the announcement by Courtney Claussen, SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Product Manager. Here’s more information about dynamic tiering and its benefits on AWS.SAP HANA dynamic tiering allows your SAP HANA database to store warm data on a separate dedicated host that houses the ... Read More