Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Guilherme Sesterheim. Introduction We’ve already demonstrated in our first blog post how to provision the infrastructure for SAP applications using Terraform, and in our second blog post we added in automation of SAP software installation using Systems Manager. Now it is time to go deeper with open-source common tools like Jenkins and Ansible to have the SAP installation in a comprehensible single pipeline. This approach brings a few benefits added on top of the other alternatives: Helps customer teams to be compliant with auditable policies related to configuration as code, since in this blog post ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Balaji Krishna. Introduction SAP applications support mission-critical business processes, so customers want to be able to identify and resolve issues impacting their SAP HANA databases quickly. However, SAP workloads have unique requirements and consumption patterns, and getting HANA-specific intelligence can be complex. Further, when issues are identified, finding root cause can also be difficult. Since 2019, AWS customers have been using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights to solve these same challenges for Microsoft SQL Server databases and .NET-based Applications. Earlier this week, we announced that CloudWatch Application Insights now supports observability for SAP HANA databases. This ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Sreenath Middhi. Introduction:Customers have been running Microsoft Workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for over 12 years, longer than any other cloud provider. AWS has been running SAP workloads since 2008, which is also meaningfully longer than any other cloud provider. Today, more than 5000 active customers are running SAP on AWS, and many of them are running their SAP workloads on Microsoft SQL Server. The objective of this blog is to provide guidance and resources for the planning and migration of SAP workloads running on Microsoft SQL Server databases to AWS We will cover ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: John Studdert. Introduction SAP applications represent the financial system of record and business process backbone for most of the world’s enterprises. Because SAP workloads are both mission-critical and often resource-intensive, architectural decisions can have large impacts. Understandably, customers want to make sure their architecture supports their unique business and technical requirements. AWS has been supporting SAP workloads since 2008, when SAP themselves started using AWS to support their own innovation journey, and SAP customers have been running production SAP on AWS since 2011. Over this 13+ year journey, we have learned a lot about how ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Lalit Mangla. Introduction Many SAP customers are still running their mission-critical SAP workloads on Oracle database with the different combinations of Operating systems (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux / SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) in their on-premises environment. The challenge in their cloud adoption journey is to migrate Oracle based workloads as-is using a “lift and shift” approach to get the immediate benefit of reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) from running in the Cloud. Customers commonly select this approach as an interim step while deciding on their long term SAP Strategy for beyond ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. This post was jointly authored by Steven Jones, General Manager of SAP/VMware at AWS, and Anurag Handa, General Manager of Cloud & Enterprise Solutions Group at Intel Deliver better performance for mission-critical SAP workloads with Amazon EC2 M6i Instances AWS and Intel recently announced the launch of our new Amazon EC2 M6i instances, which are certified for SAP NetWeaver workloads in production. These are the first generally available, SAP-certified cloud instances that are built on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, as documented in SAP note 1656099. These instances offer up to a ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Pavol Masarovic. Introduction At AWS, we commonly hear from customers that they are looking to not only move their SAP systems to the cloud, but transform the way they use data and analytics capabilities within the organisation. Furthermore, they want to combine the SAP data with non-SAP data in a single data and analytics solution on AWS. That’s why earlier this week, in response to customer feedback, we announced that you can now extract data from SAP ERP/BW systems for use with AWS services using the Amazon AppFlow SAP OData Connector. This launch makes it ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Pradeep Puliyampatta. Introduction SAP systems that are critical to business continuity require a well designed and tested High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) framework to maximise application availability during planned and unplanned outages. SAP HANA is an in-memory database that supports mission critical workloads and is a key component of an SAP system that needs to be safeguarded from failures. A primary or active HANA database can be replicated to a secondary instance using SAP HANA System Replication (HSR). SAP HSR continuously replicates data to ensure that in the event of a failure on the ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Arne Knoeller. While Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers such as Bizzy, Invista, Zalando, and Engie have implemented data and analytics solutions on AWS in support of their SAP workloads, many more are working with AWS to see how they can gain further insights by exploring trends in data. The large amount of data generated by business transactions processed in SAP, when properly harnessed by data and analytics solutions, can enable innovative decision making in many areas, such as customer engagement, cost management, and product roadmaps. One of the first steps in this journey is choosing ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ferry Mulyadi. Introduction When SAP customers embark on a journey to implement SAP S/4HANA, many have questions on how to secure SAP Fiori, the User Interface component of SAP applications based on HTML5. As the starting point, we will refer to The OWASP Top 10 (Open Web Application Security Project), which represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. By adopting this, you start the mitigation process of ensuring that the security risks to SAP Fiori are minimized. Even though SAP provides secure programming guide to mitigate the security risks, ... Read More