Category: SAP

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Arne Knoeller. Many customers are looking into SAP migrations to the cloud. For each migration, every customer must define the appropriate architecture in the cloud. The defined service level agreements (SLAs) must be fulfilled, and the implemented procedures should fit to the operational processes.In this blog post, we describe a cloud native approach to demonstrate the power and capabilities of AWS. There are still good reasons for HANA System Replication (HSR) or third-party cluster software to build productive systems in cloud environments. However, we focus on an alternative approach by using cloud native features, such ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Alex Dzhan. This is a guest post written by Chris Pomeroy, Vice President Solutions Architecture, SyntaxIn a recent survey, 47% of respondents said that running SAP applications on the cloud was an important part of their IT strategy. Your business may be considering a cloud migration for your SAP workloads but you have questions around the following topics: Security—what are the security options in the cloud? Reliability and availability—how do you best architect for availability in the cloud? Compliance and governance—how are these achieved in the cloud? Cost—how does the value of the cloud compare? ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Shivam Mittal. Customers running SAP on AWS often ask us if we’ve seen reusable trends in tagging strategies for SAP workloads. Tags are simple labels consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value. Tags enable customers to assign metadata to cloud resources, making it easier to manage, search, and filter existing resources.In this post, we outline the benefits of tagging and provide recommendations for customers and partners deploying SAP workloads on AWS. Recommended tags are based on practices we’ve seen across a number of our engagements. Customers can directly use all of these tags ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Manas Srivastava. One of the key things customers look for when deploying SAP workloads on AWS is having high availability (HA) set up for their business/mission-critical SAP applications. In this blog post, we discuss the HA option for customers running their SAP workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat provides SAP certified high availability solutions for various SAP components. Red Hat has extended HA add-on components, including pacemaker, STONITH, corosync, and resource agents. Customers can build HA clusters across AWS Availability Zones within a Region for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver-based applications.AWS provides ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Alex Dzhan. This is a guest post written by Chance Veasey, SVP of SAP Line of Business, Velocity Technology Solutions.The deadline to move to SAP S/4HANA was recently extended to 2027. Many companies are in the early stages of evaluating how and when to make this upgrade. For many organizations, the decision to adopt the cloud for their enterprise deployments is in the rear view mirror. Thus, migrating SAP to the cloud first, and then pursuing the upgrade to S/4HANA later, may be the best course of action for your company. Migrating to the cloud ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Alex Dzhan. This is a guest post written by Alan Manuel, Chief Product Officer, Protera Technologies.Regardless of industry, your customers have more choices than ever. To stay competitive you must meet their needs more quickly, more accurately, and with higher quality. If your business runs SAP, you’re considering a comprehensive approach to meet these needs: Implementing new functionality offered by SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA to enable the modern business process that your customers require. Executing your digital transformation strategy to unlock innovation and increase agility. A continuous improvement plan to improve service levels, reduce costs, ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kenny Rajan. Part 1 of this series demonstrated how to integrate SAP PI/PO systems with AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) and how to use the data that AWS SFTP stores in Amazon S3 for post-processing analytics. This post shows you how to integrate SAP Cloud Platform Integration (SAP CPI) with AWS SFTP and use the AWS analytics solutions shown in part 1 for post-processing analytics.Architecture overview SAP CPI is a pay-as-you-go subscription model offered by SAP. With capabilities similar to SAP PI/PO, SAP CPI offers pay-as-you-go exchange infrastructure to integrate processes and data. This ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Chris Williams. Customers who run SAP on AWS today take advantage of the broadest and deepest set of native cloud services. These span traditional services like compute, storage, and databases, as well as emerging technologies like IoT and machine learning, on top of a reliable global infrastructure.One of the main features that we see customers use is the changing of instance types. As the workload changes, customers find that their instances are overutilized (the instance type is too small) or underutilized (the instance type is too large). This concept of scalability is called vertical scaling ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Fernando Castillo. As I look back on what our SAP on AWS customers have achieved together the past year, the word that comes to my mind is momentum. This takes me back to my college days where, as an engineering student, I learned that momentum is quantified as the product of mass and velocity. I’d like to frame this post using that equation. Mass First, I want to discuss mass, or customer adoption. Today, AWS is excited to announce that more than 5,000 active AWS customers run SAP on AWS and over half of these customers ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: KK Ramamoorthy. Data is ubiquitous and is being exponentially generated in enterprise. However, the majority of this data is dark data. The Gartner glossary defines dark data as the information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities, but which they generally fail to use for other purposes. Those other purposes could include analytics, business relationships, and direct monetization.Some of our customers, such as Thermo Fisher, are already tapping into the data generated across their enterprise to build a scalable and secure data platform on AWS. Their data includes medical instruments and ... Read More