Category: Best Practices

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the words of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ‘there is no compression algorithm for experience’. With over 5000 SAP customers on AWS, AWS has become a platform for innovation for SAP workloads. With our working backwards leadership principle, AWS has built several tools and services to help SAP customers build robust, reliable and scalable SAP […]