AWS for SAP

Category: Best Practices

rchitecture diagram showing SAP Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP) connected to an on-premises network via AWS Direct Connect with Site-to-Site VPN backup

Building Enterprise-Ready Hybrid Network Connectivity on AWS for SAP Cloud ERP Private (formerly known as RISE with SAP)

Introduction Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your SAP workloads on AWS? Let’s solve one of the most crucial pieces of the puzzle: establishing secure, reliable network connectivity between your company networks and your cloud ERP workloads. At AWS, as we’ve helped customers implement their SAP Cloud ERP Private workloads (formerly known […]

AWS Backup for SAP HANA HA Architecture

Enhance resiliency and data protection for SAP HANA high-availability deployments with Amazon Backup for SAP HANA

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, […]

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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 […]

AI-Powered Football Match Analysis: SAP Sports One on AWS

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 […]

Observability for SAP on AWS High Availability Architecture with Pacemaker

Enhance your business process resilience with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights Observability for SAP High Availability – Part 2

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 […]

Cost Savings Guide

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 […]

Overview of SAP BTP on AWS JRA

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 […]

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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 […]