Category: SAP

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

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Ajay Kande. In the words of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ‘there is no compression algorithm for experience’. With over 5000 SAP customers on AWS, AWS has become a platform for innovation for SAP workloads. With our working backwards leadership principle, AWS has built several tools and services to help SAP customers build robust, reliable and scalable SAP systems on AWS regions across the world. In this blog, we will discuss various AWS services to build reliable SAP systems on the platform. A robust backup policy is at the center of an enterprise’s business continuity and ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Nerys Olver. In recent blogs, we’ve discussed the advantages of DevOps for SAP for both build and operations and explored using AWS Chatbot to initiate Stop/Start. Today we help you fast-track the use of AWS native services for SAP operations by open-sourcing an AWS Systems Manager based solution that will Start and Stop distributed SAP HANA landscapes installed on a Linux Operating System. You can deploy this solution in less than 5 minutes using an AWS CloudFormation template. It will facilitate an application aware stop and start of the SAP workload and EC2 instances and ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Arne Knoeller. Connectivity and data exchange between different services and PaaS or SaaS solutions are important in today’s IT infrastructure. We hear from AWS customers who are using SAP services such as HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC), RISE with SAP or SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), that they wish to leverage the connectivity services provided by AWS to reduce complexity and costs while improving security and performance. Customers require connectivity from on-premise to SAP’s solutions running on AWS – both for hybrid setups, where workloads and interfaces are in customers’ on-premise data centers or simply for ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Milind Pathak. Introduction A Disaster Recovery (DR) solution is an important aspect of SAP system design. For customers running their SAP workloads on AWS, some of the key considerations for the design of the DR solution are single or multiple AWS Region or Availability Zones, Service Level Agreements such as Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and cost. To make it easy for you, SAP Specialist Solutions Architects have come up with Architecture Guidance for Availability and Reliability of SAP on AWS. This guide provides a set of architecture guidelines, strategies, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Brian Griffin. AWS is excited to participate in SAP SAPPHIRE NOW as a Gold Sponsor in 2021. The global virtual event is free to attend and will kick-off June 2nd. Please visit our virtual booth to learn why 5,000+ SAP customers choose AWS and to enter for a chance to win an Amazon Fire TV cube. AWS is also featured in the finance track. To learn how customers are using AWS to future-proof their businesses, please join our breakout session, where I give an inside scoop into Moderna, Zalando, and Bristol Myers Squibb’s SAP on ... Read More