Category: Technical How-to

Introduction SAP systems are the backbone of many enterprises, managing critical business processes and generating vast amounts of valuable data. These critical business processes and data usually extend beyond Enterprise SAP Systems, requiring customers to interact with external systems as well. As organizations seek to leverage this data for deeper insights and improved decision-making, there’s […]

Introduction In today’s data-driven enterprise landscape, organizations require secure, high-performance database solutions that can handle both transactional and analytical workloads while maintaining security and compliance requirements. SAP HANA Cloud on AWS, a cornerstone of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), addresses these needs as a fully managed, cloud-native database-as-a-service offering. Common use cases for SAP […]

Introduction Keeping your SAP HANA database up to date with the latest patches is crucial for maintaining security, performance, and reliability. However, traditional database patching often requires significant downtime, impacting business operations. While previous AWS guidance covered various automation approaches, this post introduces a new solution that achieves near-zero downtime for High Availability SAP HANA […]

Introduction Optimizing SAP operations on AWS requires efficient monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance capabilities. Building on our previous discussion of Amazon CloudWatch Application Insight in part 1, How we use CloudWatch Application Insight to monitor SAP High Availability in part 2, and Amazon CloudWatch Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Amazon Q for command line (Q […]

Introduction In today’s complex SAP environments, efficient operations and rapid troubleshooting are critical for business continuity. Building on our previous discussions of SAP observability (part-1) and Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights capabilites (part-2), this third installment introduces a powerful combination of tools that revolutionizes how teams manage SAP landscapes: Amazon CloudWatch Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server […]

Introduction Thousands of customers run SAP workloads on AWS, and customers are looking to accelerate their business process transformation by building cloud-native application extensions on AWS. Customers are leveraging 200+ AWS services to maintain a clean core for their ERP system, streamline upgrades, and innovate at pace with evolving business needs using AWS-native capabilities. Security […]

Global organizations using SAP systems need to handle data in multiple languages. Unicode provides a standardized way to represent and process text data from these languages, ensuring consistent display and processing across different systems and platforms. SAP recommends using Unicode for all new installations and converting from non-Unicode systems to ensure compatibility, data integrity, and […]

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 […]