Category: Technical How-to

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 […]

Introduction While Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers such as Bizzy, Invista, Zalando, and Engie have implemented data and analytics solutions on AWS in support of their SAP workloads, many more are working with AWS to see how they can gain further insights by exploring trends in data. The large amount of data generated by business […]

Introduction When SAP customers embark on a journey to implement SAP S/4HANA, many have questions on how to secure SAP Fiori, the User Interface component of SAP applications based on HTML5. As the starting point, we will refer to The OWASP Top 10 (Open Web Application Security Project), which represents a broad consensus about the […]

In recent blogs, we’ve discussed the advantages of DevOps for SAP for both build and operations and explored using AWS Chatbot to initiate Stop/Start. Today we help you fast-track the use of AWS native services for SAP operations by open-sourcing an AWS Systems Manager based solution that will Start and Stop distributed SAP HANA landscapes […]

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 […]