Category: Technical How-to

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 Disclaimer Since AWS certificates can rotate / change at any time, it is customer’s responsibility to keep their SAP trust stores up to date. More information on certificate pinning can be found at the following link https://www.amazontrust.com/repository One of the most common requirements when running an SAP system is to send outgoing email, which […]

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 […]