Category: Technical How-to

This post was written by Kenny Rajan, Patrick Leung, Scott Francis, Will Charlton & Ganesh Suryanarayan. The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) is reinventing the way companies drive manufacturing efficiency. From the shop floor at the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) level to the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), all the way up […]

Introduction One of the most common requirements when running an SAP system is to send outgoing email, which can come from several different areas, from monitoring and alerting (e.g Solman), batch processing / process chains, workflows, and so on…. If you have moved your SAP system to AWS, you may want to get rid of […]

In a previous blog, we have concluded that Amazon CloudFront is recommended to accelerate the SAP Fiori Launchpad use case, while AWS Global Accelerator is recommended to accelerate the external system integration scenario via OData API calls such as Data extraction for analytics and reporting. We observed improvement in the time to first load SAP […]

Spending hours and hours starting and stopping SAP systems for maintenance windows, profile parameter changes, and other required activities? AWS Professional Services’ SAP Start/Stop Automation automates the start and stop of your SAP Systems with less human intervention and increased reliability, consistency, and control. Let’s assume there are hundreds of SAP systems spread across multiple […]

Introduction Cloud Security is job zero at AWS. We have a Shared Responsibility Model with the customer; AWS manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the services operate. The customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system […]

Introduction Earlier this year, SAP announced extension of mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 core applications until end of 2027 followed by optional extended maintenance until the end of 2030. You can read details here. With this announcement, Customers migrating their SAP systems from end of life, traditional Data Centers to AWS have lot […]

Introduction In part I we discussed how to use managed AWS Config rules to automatically audit and assess the of your SAP landscape. We provided a solution to ensure your EC2 instances are configured per SAP best practices. At present, AWS offers more than 160 such managed rules in its North Virginia Region. Along with […]

Introduction Customers who run SAP on AWS can take advantage of a broad set of additional services that can enhance and simplify the operations of running SAP. Often, one such tedious task is to validate that your SAP systems are configured according to best practices, meet the requirements for vendor support, and meet internal audit […]

Introduction As you may have seen, AWS recently integrated the VSS application-consistent backup capabilities into AWS Backup In this blog post, we will talk about the possibility of running Microsoft SQL Server database consistent snapshot backups from within the AWS Backup console. VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) is a feature provided by Microsoft Windows which […]