AWS for SAP
Category: Best Practices
Optimization Techniques for Running SAP workloads on AWS: A Cost-Savings Guide
Introduction In the current economic climate, cost optimization is a key priority for many businesses. As companies modernize their SAP implementations, optimizing the cost of running SAP workloads can free up resources which can instead be used for innovation. This blog shares insights and strategies for optimizing SAP workload costs and operations, leveraging best practices […]
Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules
This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS and Fortinet: Ferry Mulyadi, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Derek Ewell, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Julian Petersohn, Global SAP Engineer, Fortinet Fabian Lee, Solution Architect, AWS Introduction Per CyberCrime’s editor in chief Steve Morgan “Cybercrime To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually by […]
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 […]
Modernize your SAP eco-system with SAP BTP and AWS services
Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008. SAP and AWS have partnered for 14+ years to jointly innovate for our customers. Our guiding star has been to bring flexibility and agility of the AWS platform to run SAP workloads. SAP has consistently leveraged AWS services over the years to run internal systems and […]
Optimize SUSE subscription cost for SAP workloads on AWS
In the words of Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos “There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.” This quote embodies how Amazon Leadership Principles shape ideas for new initiatives and how to improve the customer experience. These improvements […]
Amplify the value of your SAP investment with AWS and SAP Business Technology Platform Joint Reference Architecture
This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS and SAP: Ferry Mulyadi, Partner Solution Architect SAP Alliance APJ, AWS Manjunath Chandrashekhar, Director SAP Business Technology Platform CoE APJ, SAP Introduction Many SAP customers are looking at ways to get more out of their SAP investments by introducing custom code within their core […]
Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 1 – Architecture design patterns
Introduction Cloud Security is job zero at AWS. We have a Shared Responsibility Model where customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software as well as the configuration of the AWS services. A common question that organizations that are new to SAP on AWS […]
Automate SAP HANA database restore using AWS Systems Manager
Introduction: For many customers, SAP system copies are one of the routine maintenance activities. SAP system copies are a defined sequence of steps to copy SAP production data to non-production environments. In this blog post, we discuss about automating the SAP HANA database restore. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backint Agent for SAP HANA is an […]
High availability design and solution for SAP NetWeaver installations with Oracle Data Guard (Fast-Start Failover)
Introduction Many SAP customers are still running their mission-critical SAP workloads on Oracle database with the different combinations of Operating systems (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux / SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) in their on-premises environment. The challenge in their cloud adoption journey is to migrate Oracle based workloads as-is using a “lift and […]
SAP HANA sizing considerations for secondary instance with reduced memory footprint
Introduction SAP systems that are critical to business continuity require a well designed and tested High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) framework to maximise application availability during planned and unplanned outages. SAP HANA is an in-memory database that supports mission critical workloads and is a key component of an SAP system that needs to be […]