Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Axel Streichardt. Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift), as well as a 20% reduction¹ in total cost of ownership (TCO) over five years compared to ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Patrick Leung. Machine learning is increasingly becoming a core part of the digital transformation. It helps companies recognize patterns at scale and find novel ways to delight customers, streamline operations, or help make a product successful in a competitive marketplace. In practice, when you build an architecture based on machine learning, you need to understand the data, overcome the challenges involved in getting the data set right, and keep your model accurate with continuous feedback loop. In this blog post, we describe how to build end-to-end integration between SAP S/4HANA systems and Amazon SageMaker with ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Patrick Leung. Most companies have processes to better understand their customers and data is fast becoming the key to strengthening customer relationships. However, merely collecting data isn’t enough. While most organizations have access to plenty of data, determining the meaning behind the data can be difficult. In this blog post, we show how you can use a combination of SAP Data Intelligence 3 (DI3), SAP HANA and Amazon S3 to build a data-driven architecture to better understand customer feedback and derive meaningful insight. We start with the deployment of SAP Data Intelligence 3 and show ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Vivekananda Wali. AWS has more than 5000 active customers running SAP on AWS, with workloads that run on a diverse set of SAP releases and versions. Most customers are working with SAP NetWeaver based environments composed of one or more application servers and a database. The best practice to achieve high availability of applications and databases is to leverage operating system clustering. The cluster resource availability ensures the application and database resilience. This blog/document describes the technique to monitor SAP Application cluster, HANA database cluster, HANA replication and SAP applications core services based on Amazon ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kathy Siefert. Each year, AWS re:Invent gives us an opportunity to connect with our customers, celebrate their successes, and announce new ways we intend to solve their challenges moving forward. While we couldn’t be together in person this year, we still had an incredible few weeks hearing from SAP customers as they showed us how they are using AWS as their platform of innovation and choice for SAP workloads. Now that we’ve all had some time to catch our breath, I want to highlight the customers we heard from at re:Invent, so you can easily ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Shashank Rai. Introduction Earlier this year, SAP announced extension of mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 core applications until end of 2027 followed by optional extended maintenance until the end of 2030. You can read details here. With this announcement, Customers migrating their SAP systems from end of life, traditional Data Centers to AWS have lot of options to choose from. Instead of upgrading / migrating to S4HANA, they can continue to use their existing SAP Business Suite 7 Systems on AWS as-is. With this option, they want to ensure their core SAP Applications ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Introduction As I reflect on 2020, I first want to acknowledge how unbelievably crazy it has been. Almost universally, our way of life has been changed due to COVID-19 and other world events, and it’s been difficult for so many. The pandemic forced organizations to make deep operational changes almost immediately to meet the needs of their customers and employees, and many are turning to cloud services to adapt. Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a chance to hear from many of these customers as part of our annual re:Invent conference. Several ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Fernando Castillo. With more than 5,000 active customers running SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS has become the de facto cloud platform for SAP workloads. For years, customers have chosen AWS for their mission-critical SAP applications due to our high-performance, cost-effective global infrastructure, wide variety of Amazon EC2 instance types certified for SAP, and extensive experience supporting nearly every SAP product across industries and geographic regions. Many of these customers have been shifting their focus to how they can leverage the full breadth and depth of AWS as their platform of innovation to modernize ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Naresh Pasumarthy. Introduction Organizations have been running SAP on AWS since 2008. From the beginning, our team has been listening to customers and rolling their feedback into the AWS platform to improve the SAP on AWS experience. Over this 13+ year journey, one thing that customers have told us repeatedly is that they want to deploy their SAP workloads faster and with greater simplicity. This led us to announce at re:Invent 2019 that AWS Launch Wizard — a service that guides you through the process of sizing, configuring, and deploying third-party applications — would be ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kaustubh Kulkarni. Introduction In part I we discussed how to use managed AWS Config rules to automatically audit and assess the of your SAP landscape. We provided a solution to ensure your EC2 instances are configured per SAP best practices. At present, AWS offers more than 160 such managed rules in its North Virginia Region. Along with the infrastructure, customers must also keep their applications compliant. This is where AWS Config Custom Rules comes into the picture. Custom rules will allow us to define our own configuration checks in addition to those covered in the ... Read More