AWS for SAP
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doTERRA – Revamping SAP Commerce with AWS to Match the Speed of Business
This blog post is a collaboration between Parker Bradshaw, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS, Francesco Bersani, Solutions Architect at AWS, and Prince Jain, Principal Cloud Architect at doTERRA. Introduction In this blog post, we will discuss how doTERRA, a global essential oils company, overcame significant challenges by migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and revamping […]
Event-Driven Architectures with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP
Omnichannel strategies have become the norm for organizations across industries. In this environment, businesses often face the challenge of integrating different systems to ensure seamless data flow and near real-time updates. Especially in e-commerce businesses, showing up-to-date inventory of a product that customers want to buy is extremely critical. Lack of access to accurate inventory […]
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 […]
SAP HANA Fast Restart Option on AWS
Introduction Over the years, enterprises have enjoyed the power of in-memory SAP HANA databases to help with the performance of critical business processes. However, as their usage and data footprint increase, one operational challenge is the startup time required for data to be loaded into memory following an application restart. This requirement results in longer […]
Run your most IOPS-intensive SAP workloads on AWS with Amazon EBS io2 Block Express
Introduction AWS has been supporting SAP workloads in the cloud since 2008, and SAP customers in the cloud since 2011. Over these years, our customers running SAP workloads have witnessed unprecedented growth in the data generated by their enterprises. As a consequence, customers have been looking for low latency and enhanced performance for their databases […]
Amazon EC2 M6i instances now available and SAP certified
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 […]
Automating SAP HANA Installations on AWS with DevOps
Introduction In our first blog, Terraform your SAP Infrastructure on AWS, we began the SAP on AWS DevOps journey by defining the SAP infrastructure as code (IaC) . By doing this, we demonstrated with our Terraform modules here on GitHub and here on the Terraform Registry, by defining SAP as code, infrastructure and servers can quickly be deployed […]
Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances now available for on-demand usage
Introduction SAP customers continue to leverage AWS as their platform of choice and innovation. Some are in the early stages of their SAP cloud journeys and are focused on executing their migration. Others have hardened their SAP systems on AWS and are innovating around their core business processes with advanced AWS services. For example, Zalando […]
Voice of Customer Analytics using SAP Data Intelligence on AWS
Introduction Most companies have processes to better understand their customers and data is fast becoming the key to strengthening customer relationships. However, merely collecting data isn’t enough. While most organizations have access to plenty of data, determining the meaning behind the data can be difficult. In this blog post, we show how you can use […]
SAP on AWS: 2020 Year in Review
Introduction As I reflect on 2020, I first want to acknowledge how unbelievably crazy it has been. Almost universally, our way of life has been changed due to COVID-19 and other world events, and it’s been difficult for so many. The pandemic forced organizations to make deep operational changes almost immediately to meet the needs […]