Category: Technical How-to

Introduction Since its initial release in early 2023, the AWS Systems Manager for SAP team has been working to enhance the service based on customer feedback to help SAP customers manage their SAP systems on AWS. In this blog we will review the following two enhancements that have been released with AWS Systems Manager Application […]

Automate SAP Deployments with AWS Launch Wizard for SAP APIs AWS Launch Wizard offers customers a fully automated process for deploying secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient HANA-based SAP applications on AWS in just a few hours vs. weeks or months on-premises. The AWS Launch Wizard for SAP service provisions all of the necessary AWS resources […]

  Introduction SAP HANA is the defacto database for new SAP deployments and will be the only choice in the near future, with SAP ending general support for all non-HANA based systems by 2027. Patching databases in a consistent and automated manner is key to reduce TCO, especially for customers who operate a large number […]

Introduction To modernize their SAP landscape, many AWS customers are leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS services to develop new applications and functionalities in accordance with SAP’s “clean core” approach. This simplifies future upgrades and extensibility, thus allowing them to innovate at a rapid pace using AWS services. To meet business demands faster and […]

Introduction Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008 and many of these SAP customers have been developing and enhancing their SAP business process using ABAP for much longer. Many customers’ business processes rely on custom ABAP code, and have teams of ABAP developers in-house or through their partners. However, innovating with AWS […]

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 […]

Introduction For SAP Java applications such as SAP Enterprise Portal (EP), customers use SAP Web dispatcher as an entry point of their HTTP(s) requests. SAP Web dispatcher receives the requests  coming from internet or intranet and distributes the requests among the application servers. For internet-based HTTP(s) requests, SAP Web dispatcher needs to be accessible to […]

Introduction Password rotation is a commonly accepted security best practice. In fact, password rotation is enforced in many organizations to reduce the risk of password-based attacks or exploits. Password policies encourage users to use strong passwords by enforcing a set of rules like password length and use of special characters. However, manually rotating passwords under […]

Introduction Over the years, enterprises have enjoyed the power of in-memory SAP HANA databases to help with the performance of critical business processes. However, as their usage and data footprint increase, one operational challenge is the startup time required for data to be loaded into memory following an application restart. This requirement results in longer […]

Authors: Krishnakumar Ramadoss, Rozal Singh, Manoj Muthukrishnan, Ram Borhade, Rajendra  Narikimelli, Damian Maldonado, Ganesh Suryanarayanan Introduction 5,000+  customers are running their SAP workloads on AWS. Besides saving costs, customers are reaping significant benefits from the depth and breadth of AWS services. Tens of thousands of data lakes are already deployed on AWS. Customers are benefiting […]