Category: *Post Types

Introduction Secure and efficient access to SAP applications is crucial for maintaining operational excellence and high productivity for users. As organizations embrace hybrid work models and mobile workforce solutions, traditional VPN (Virtual Private Network) based approaches to SAP system access are increasingly showing their limitations. At the same time, organizations are looking beyond traditional access […]

Introduction SAP HANA databases are often deployed in High Availability (HA) configurations to maintain continuous operations on AWS. SAP HANA databases need both HA configuration and comprehensive backup strategies to protect data and support complete system recovery. Despite the benefits of SAP HA deployments, SAP HANA databases remain vulnerable to various risks, including cluster-wide failures, […]

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 […]

Introduction For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enabled customers to modernize their businesses. AWS provides simplified, API-based access to a range of services, including Networking, Compute, Analytics, Messaging, Security and Identity, Mobile Services and Generative AI. These services allow customers to experiment and innovate at faster pace, without requiring a heavy […]

This post was jointly authored by AWS and SAP. We thank Fadi Naoum (Senior VP, Head of Sports & Entertainment), Christian Walter (COO, Sports & Entertainment), Michael Kettenmann (Product Manager for SAP Sports One), and Baris Altuz (Product Manager for team management, scouting & match analysis), for their contributions to our successful partnership and this […]

SAP’s rapid adoption of RISE with SAP and SAP BTP has led to managing over 7,000 AWS accounts across 33 regions. To address this scale, SAP developed a “Secure by Default” framework, leveraging AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, S3, and Lambda for comprehensive security monitoring and automated remediation. This automated, scalable approach ensures a strong security posture across SAP’s extensive cloud footprint, allowing customers to focus on their core business with confidence in their AWS-hosted environments.

Overview This is a part II of Blog Amazon SES configuration for SAP ABAP Systems In part I, we covered the Outbound emails from SAP systems to external recipients. In this blog, we will cover Inbound email from external recipients to SAP users. Services Used Amazon Simple Email Service AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch Logs Amazon […]

Introduction In the second part of our blog series, we will share more details on each of the key capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, to aid in using the insights gained, to catch trends in your system, understand the overall health of your SAP landscape, and react accordingly, to maximize your business continuity. The […]

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service centralizing and automating the backup of data across AWS services. Tçhis centralized, AWS Cloud native solution provides global backup capabilities that can help you achieve your disaster recovery and compliance requirements. AWS Backup offers a simple, cost-effective, and application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases […]

Introduction One reason thousands of customers choose AWS to run their mission-critical SAP workloads is to improve reliability and business resilience. In fact, a 2023 IDC report found that customers who run S/4HANA on AWS experience 58% less unplanned downtime vs. on-premises. Increasingly, SAP customers are choosing RISE with SAP on AWS to support their […]