SAP and Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP have developed a close collaborative alliance dedicated to creating innovative solutions for businesses of all sizes and to delivering maximum customer value.

New and existing SAP customers can deploy their SAP solutions on SAP certified Amazon EC2 instances in production environments knowing that SAP and AWS have tested the performance of the underlying AWS resources, verified their performance, and certified them against the same standards that apply to servers and virtual platforms.

Customers now have the flexibility to deploy their SAP solutions and landscapes on the scalable, on-demand AWS platform without making required long-term commitments or costly capital expenditures for their underlying infrastructure. The AWS pay-per-use model enables customers to pay only for the resources used, which results in lower costs, increased efficiencies, and faster time to market.

Current SAP certified solutions for production on AWS:
SAP Business Suite
SAP HANA One
SAP Business All-in-One
SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions
SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS)
SAP Afaria

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How to Deploy SAP Certified Solutions on Amazon EC2

In order to properly size, benchmark, and configure SAP solutions on Amazon EC2 instances, customers should follow these guidelines established by SAP and AWS:

Use the SAP Quick Sizer (SMP Credentials Required) to translate business requirements into technical sizing requirements.

Follow the technical guidelines outlined in SAP Note 1588667 for operating SAP systems on Amazon Web Services (SMP Credentials Required).

AWS and SAP have collaborated to offer customers options and convenience when deploying SAP applications in the cloud. Customers can now license SAP applications to run in the AWS cloud computing environment from an authorized SAP reseller, or use their existing SAP software licenses on Amazon EC2, with no additional SAP license fees. AWS cloud infrastructure services can be purchased directly from AWS or through one of its Resellers.
SAP software licenses are sold directly by SAP or its affiliated channel partners.
System integration, deployment, and hosting services are available through SAP partners and AWS Solution Providers.

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SAP Cloud Appliance Library

The SAP Cloud Appliance Library is an on-demand SAP NetWeaver Cloud powered solution hosted on SAP Cloud to deliver SAP Business Suite systems as software appliances directly into the AWS accounts of Business Suite customers. With SAP Cloud Appliance Library on AWS, you can quickly deploy SAP demo, test, and training solutions in the cloud. Now you can spend more time on evaluation, innovation, and differentiating your business – and less on installation, setup and configuration. SAP Cloud Appliance Library allows you to easily access and manage SAP solution instances through a web-based, self-service portal. In fact, with SAP Cloud Appliance Library, you can start working directly with SAP systems in under an hour.

To learn more about or to register for the SAP Cloud Appliance Library solution visit the SAP Cloud Appliance page.

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SAP Business Suite now certified for production on AWS

SAP has now certified the AWS platform for SAP Business Suite production deployments. Enterprise customers may now run their mission critical applications, including SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and the complete SAP NetWeaver ABAP and Java technology stacks on the AWS cloud. This recent certification follows other prior certifications of SAP Business Objects, SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS), SAP All-in-One ERP, SAP Afaria, and SAP HANA One, to offer customers of any size more options to run their SAP production workloads on the flexible, secure, low cost, and elastic AWS cloud infrastructure. Learn more and how to get started by reviewing one of several technical papers and guides below.

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SAP HANA One available on the AWS Marketplace

AWS now offers SAP HANA One, a deployment option for SAP’s HANA in-memory data platform, for use in production on the elastic AWS Cloud and available for purchase with pay-as-you-go pricing, for only $0.99 an hour on the AWS Marketplace. SAP HANA One is provisioned by AWS on advanced hardware, using AWS’s powerful Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.8xlarge) instance type⁽¹⁾ with memory capacity up to 60 GB of RAM per instance, which provides a large amount of computational power coupled with increased network performance, and is well-suited for computationally intensive workloads like SAP HANA One.

The availability of SAP HANA One on AWS enables companies of any size to deploy business-critical or consumer-facing HANA-based applications to take advantage of the power of in-memory transactional and analytical data processing supported by SAP HANA.

SAP’s Expense Insight is an example of HANA-based applications, which empowers managers to view and analyze expenses and is also available on the AWS Marketplace.

Get Started:

Go directly to the AWS Marketplace, an online store where you can find, buy, and 1-click deploy software that runs on the AWS Cloud, to provision and instantly access SAP HANA.

⁽¹⁾ cc2.8xlarge instances cost $2.50 an hour, and are billed in addition to the $0.99/hour fee for SAP HANA One.

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TCO Study for SAP on Amazon Web Services White Paper

Research Finds that Running SAP on AWS Provides Costs Savings of Up to 71%!
As more enterprises seek to understand cost savings of cloud deployments, Germany based consulting firm, VMS AG leveraged its industry-leading intelligence to develop a detailed cost analysis of running small and large SAP ERP systems on AWS using the best practices of more than 2,850 SAP environments. The research discovered that running SAP applications on AWS provides infrastructure savings of up to 71% compared to running it on-premises. Download the full TCO White Paper today to learn more.

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Test Drives and Developer Environments

SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration Trial

SAP now offers a free trial license to create your own SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration environment on the AWS Cloud. This trial license is valid until February 20th, 2013. SAP is not charging you anything for the trial license, but you will be responsible for managing your own AWS account. Standard rates and charges will apply. Learn more about how to sign-up and get connected to your SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration trial environment on AWS.

SAP on AWS Test Drive Program

SAP Test Drive Program provides customers with the ability to quickly and easily deploy and explore the value and benefits of using SAP software on the AWS cloud. These test drives have been developed by AWS partners and are free of charge for educational and demonstration purposes. Each Test Drive includes up to 5 hours of complimentary AWS server time for you to try and evaluate live enterprise solution stacks. You can return here anytime and to try any other Test Drive, so feel free to experiment and explore! Visit the SAP Test Drive Program detail page to begin.

SAP Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) Developer Environments on AWS

Developer instances of SAP’s Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) are now available on the AWS platform. These instances offer access to a hosted developer environment through AWS and a software developer kit (SDK) local download. Users are not charged for the license, but will be responsible for operating their own AWS account and any hosting fees associated. Developers can learn more and sign-up through the "Sybase Unwired Platform Developer Center" page within the SAP Community Network or you may link directly and begin creating your own SAP Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) developer environment on AWS.

Developer Edition of SAP HANA One on the AWS Cloud

Developer instances of SAP HANA One are now available on the AWS platform. For the first time, developers can get access to this in-memory technology from SAP through the highly scalable and low cost cloud infrastructure on AWS. Developers who sign up are able to run their own pre-configured HANA One instance to create their data analysis application. Along with a host of third-party development tools already available on AWS, this solution is a major step for SAP to build-out a global ecosystem of SAP HANA developers. Developers can sign-up through the SAP HANA Developer Center page within the SAP Community Network.

SAP Afaria 14-Day Free Trial Available on the AWS Marketplace

SAP® Afaria Mobile Device and Application Management solution provides a convenient, reliable and cost-effective way for customers to effectively manage and secure their enterprise mobile applications and corporate-liable and personally-owned devices. SAP Afaria can now be found in the AWS Marketplace. Customers with licenses for earlier versions of SAP Afaria can use the same license to experience SAP Afaria 7.0,sp1 on Amazon Web Services. Customers without existing licenses can receive a license that enables a 14-day free trial. The evaluation includes help from SAP mobile experts, who will guide customers throughout the test-drive process. Get started with SAP Afaria 7.0,sp1 on AWS by visiting the AWS Marketplace.

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How to Get Started

Technical Papers and Guides
AWS Case Studies

Technical Papers and Guides

The following is a list of Technical Papers and Guides authored by AWS:

Title	Description	Date
SAP on AWS High Availability Guide	This guide provides an overview on how to configure SAP systems on Amazon EC2 in such a way as to be able to protect the application from various single points of failure. This guide will explore how features native to the AWS platform in combination with SAP installation techniques can greatly improve the availability of an SAP deployment. Download SAP on AWS High Availability Guide	November 2012
Backup and Recovery of SAP Systems on AWS Guide	This guide provides an overview of how to backup SAP systems running on AWS. This guide focuses on the essential differences in backing up SAP systems on AWS as compared to traditional infrastructure. Download Guide	September 2012
SAP on AWS Operations Guide	The SAP on AWS Operations Guide provides guidance on the special considerations that must be taken into account when operating SAP solutions on AWS. Download Operations Guide	May 2012
Implementing SAP Solutions on AWS Guide	This guide provides best practice guidelines for implementing SAP solutions on AWS. The intended audience of this guide ranges from anyone who is new to AWS and is looking to install small SAP test/training/sandbox/demo systems on AWS to someone who is already familiar with AWS and is looking for detailed guidance on how to deploy high performance SAP systems on AWS. Download Implementation Guide	May 2012

AWS Case Studies

The following is a list of Case Studies:

Title	Description	Date
Galata Chemical (SAP Business Suite)	Galata’s SAP ERP system supports more than 80 percent of Galata’s business processes and is the source of reporting and master data for employees, contractors, partners and mobile workers worldwide. Galata worked with Protera Technologies, a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), to deploy a disaster recover (DR) solution for their SAP systems on AWS that would be more cost-effective and easier to operate than similar solutions based on traditional tape technologies. After migrating from a tape solution to the AWS Cloud, Galata now has continuous data synchronization between its primary SAP production environment and the secondary DR landscape. Protera is able to spin up additional instances for Galata on the AWS Cloud in a matter of minutes, and DR testing procedures now take hours instead of days. Read Case Study	April 2013
Merrifield Garden Center (SAP Business All-in-One)	AWS Consulting Providers, Protera Technologies and Savantis Group, helped Merrifield Garden Center use SAP Business-All-in-One (A1) on the AWS Cloud to reduce costs, improve the stability and security of their applications and data, and eliminate the burden of managing IT infrastructure hardware so they can focus on new customer-facing initiatives to grow their business. Watch Video Case Study	November 2012
Viskase (SAP Business Suite)	Viskase, a Chicago, IL based supplier of casings for the processed meat and poultry industries, was looking to meet a growing need for improved business continuity for an SAP disaster recovery solution (SAP Business Suite) that replicated its production environment. The company was using a traditional tape backup solution and stored tapes at an off-site location. Viskase chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) based on the recommendation of its service provider partner, Protera Technologies, a member of the AWS Partner Network. Since implementing the SAP solution on AWS, Viskase improved its time to restore service from two days to less than an hour. Read Case Study	October 2012
LIONSGATE (SAP Business Suite)	LIONSGATE is a $2 billion diversified global entertainment corporation that produces feature films and television shows, which they distribute worldwide. As a successful media and entertainment company, LIONSGATE was faced with IT challenges that confront many growing businesses such as ever-expanding infrastructure and costs, increasing enterprise application workloads, and tighter time-to-market requirements. These challenges led to an exploration of cloud-based solutions for development and test workloads, production workloads for enterprise applications, and backup, archive, and disaster recovery strategies. LIONSGATE was able to use AWS to reduce the time required to deploy infrastructure from weeks to days or hours; and to run production Microsoft SharePoint workloads, and testing and development for their SAP (SAP Business Suite) applications. Read Case Study	September 2012
Emergency Medicine Business Solutions (SAP Business Objects)	Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence (EMBI) offers “analytics as a service” to hospital emergency departments. The company hosts their offering on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS as a platform for their computing and storage needs enabling EMBI to offer business critical analytics tools to their customers. EMBI’s “out-of–the-box” analytics dashboard and key performance metrics solution monitors and benchmarks every aspect of a hospital’s emergency department (ED), including patient care, turn-around times, productivity, utilization, satisfaction, revenue cycle, and risk. EMBI is using the following AWS products: Amazon EC2 on-demand instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP BusinessObjects. Read Case Study	July 2012
Informa (SAP Business Objects)	Informa recently incorporated Amazon Web Services (AWS) into its infrastructure with the use of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to provide server capacity for the development and test processes of the company's enterprise accounting system. This accounting system provides accounting services and financial reporting to all Informa business units. Because Informa is listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is considered to be a business-critical application. Other components of the Informa-Amazon solution include Python scripting, in conjunction with the Boto library and SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence for reporting. Read Case Study	July 2011
Recovery.gov (SAP Business Objects)	The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) was established when Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in February, 2009. The RATB originally intended to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) only for development, testing, and as failover. When AWS outperformed their on-premises solution at a fraction of the cost, the prime contractor Smartronix and its lead sub-contractor Synteractive, provided a compelling justification for the RATB to host Recovery.gov on AWS’s platform. Read Case Study	June 2011
RunE2E/Kenneth Cole (SAP Business Objects)	RunE2E recently decided to cloud its entire SAP Infrastructure and Platform using a combination of private and public hosting scenarios. For all public hosting scenarios, RunE2E chose AWS to standardize all of its SAP demo, development, and test environments. This wide ranging initiative covered the installation of the SAP CRM, SAP CRM RDS and SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 toolset including Data Services, Web Intelligence, Explorer, Crystal Reports, and Xcelcius Dashboarding. RunE2E leveraged several AWS APIs for starting/stopping the system, increasing system capacity based on demand needs, and changing security profiles providing a low cost but scalable environment to run its business. In conjunction, SAP has recently certified SAP CRM RDS and SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 to run on the AWS Platform. Read Case Study	August 2011

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Benefits of Using AWS for SAP Solutions

Low Cost

Pay only for cloud resources used.

Scalable

Add cloud infrastructure services in minutes.

Open and Flexible

Choose development platform and programming model.

Secure

Secure and durable technology platform with industry-recognized certifications and audits.

Fast Deployment Time

Deploy applications without waiting for hardware to arrive.

Highly Available

Highly reliable services and multiple fault-tolerant Availability Zones.

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Customer Support for SAP Deployments on Amazon EC2

For details of the prerequisites which have to be met in order to ensure full supportability and optimal performance of SAP systems on AWS please read SAP note 1656250 - SAP on AWS Support prerequisites (SAP Service Marketplace access required to view SAP notes)

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