AWS for SAP
Author: Guilherme Sesterheim
Guilherme is a SAP DevOps consultant at AWS. Has deep knowledge on open source technology, DevOps tools, and Kubernetes, and helps customers to take one step further on their journey to automate the SAP world
Automating SAP HANA DB HA Patch using SSM and nZDT
Introduction Keeping your SAP HANA database up to date with the latest patches is crucial for maintaining security, performance, and reliability. However, traditional database patching often requires significant downtime, impacting business operations. While previous AWS guidance covered various automation approaches, this post introduces a new solution that achieves near-zero downtime for High Availability SAP HANA […]
SAP Server Auto Scaling: Optimize Infrastructure Costs While Meeting Workload Demands
Introduction Migrating SAP to AWS offers customers the ability to modernize their SAP landscape and take advantage of the benefits from running in the cloud. A number of these benefits are available out of the box, such as the ease to change an instance type and memory/CPU capabilities within minutes, as well as resizing disk […]
Terraform your SAP Infrastructure on AWS
Introduction SAP systems are critical for business operations, it’s important to adhere to SAP best practices when planning their deployments and operations. While customers are increasingly choosing RISE on AWS, many customers are running SAP on AWS natively, and so, when workload requirements change, teams must iterate and adapt quickly to provision the required infrastructure […]
Build SAP Golden AMIs with EC2 Image Builder and Ansible
Introduction Over the last few years, we’ve been sharing with you how to optimize the operations of your SAP workloads on AWS, using automation, through a series of blog posts. This includes using Terraform to provision AWS infrastructure for SAP, automating the installation and configuration of your SAP applications, and proving the resiliency of your […]
Automate High Availability Tests for SAP HANA
Introduction The software development and operations industry has been modernizing and increasingly, applying DevOps as the standard approach to its processes. However, SAP installation and operations still tend to be very much manually driven. To help evolve this to an automated approach, we’ve demonstrated in our first blog post how to provision the infrastructure for […]
Automating SAP installation with open-source tools
Introduction We’ve already demonstrated in our first blog post how to provision the infrastructure for SAP applications using Terraform, and in our second blog post we added in automation of SAP software installation using Systems Manager. Now it is time to go deeper with open-source common tools like Jenkins and Ansible to have the SAP […]