Category: SAP

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

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Bill Timm. Bill Timm is a partner solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).We are happy to announce the certification of the Amazon Aurora database service for SAP Hybris Commerce on AWS. What is Amazon Aurora? Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL with the security, availability, and reliability of a commercial database at one tenth the cost. Benefits of Amazon Aurora Fully managed – ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Steven Jones. Steven Jones is a Technology Director at Amazon Web Services (AWS).The aspect I enjoy most about working at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the opportunity to get to work closely with customers as they develop and pursue their individual migration strategies for moving mission-critical workloads to the AWS Cloud. Most importantly, it’s these types of conversations that drive our roadmap. In May 2016, we announced the availability of our x1.32xlarge instance type with 2 TB of RAM, purpose-built for running large-scale SAP HANA deployments in the AWS Cloud. In August 2016, we announced ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Somckit Khemmanivanh. This post is by Harpreet Singh and Derek Ewell, Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS).In part one of this article series on virtual private cloud (VPC) subnet zoning patterns, we described possible ways in which SAP applications may be accessed, and then discussed Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) subnet zoning patterns for internal-only access in detail. In the second article in the series, we discussed how traditional application network zoning can be mapped to AWS. In this concluding article of this series, we’ll discuss access patterns for SAP applications that require ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Stefan Schneider. Stefan Schneider is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).This blog post describes the Amazon Route 53 agent, which enables on-premises users to access an SAP HANA database that is protected by SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension (SLES HAE) in the AWS Cloud. The agent provides this functionality by dispatching users through Amazon Route 53. The agent requires setting up SUSE HAE for high availability (HA) failover, implemented through the overlay IP address agent, as described in SAP Note 2309342, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension on AWS. (SAP notes require ... Read More