AWS for SAP

Category: Thought Leadership

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Licensing Optimization for SAP Applications with Amazon EC2 CPU Options

Introduction SAP offers multiple products with different licensing options for customers. An example is SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOBJ) which supports Concurrent Sessions (CS) / Concurrent Access License (CAL), Named User (NU) and CPU License types. Understanding the different license options available is important for customers to optimize their costs when running in AWS. When customers […]

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules

This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS and Fortinet: Ferry Mulyadi, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Derek Ewell, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Julian Petersohn, Global SAP Engineer, Fortinet Fabian Lee, Solution Architect, AWS Introduction Per CyberCrime’s editor in chief Steve Morgan “Cybercrime To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually by […]

Automate High Availability Tests for SAP HANA

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 […]

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Modernize your SAP eco-system with SAP BTP and AWS services

Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008. SAP and AWS have partnered for 14+ years to jointly innovate for our customers. Our guiding star has been to bring flexibility and agility of the AWS platform to run SAP workloads.​ SAP has consistently leveraged AWS services over the years to run internal systems and […]

SAP and AWS Collaborate to Accelerate Demand and Digital Transformation for Customers

This was originally posted in the SAP News Center. This post was jointly authored by: Dan Finley, global vice president and head of AWS Alliance at SAP RJ Bibby, global SAP Alliance lead at Amazon Web Services SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, are teaming to […]

AWS customers shed light on their ERP cloud transformations with RISE with SAP

ERP systems sit at the heart of many digital transformation initiatives due to their wide-reaching impact on mission critical business processes like financial close, material requirement planning, and inventory movements. These core processes represent the foundation upon which many enterprises build their customer, product, supplier, and employee experiences. Enterprises embarking on ERP modernization journeys often […]

AWS SAP Federated Machine Learning

Amplify the value of your SAP investment with AWS and SAP Business Technology Platform Joint Reference Architecture

This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS and SAP: Ferry Mulyadi, Partner Solution Architect SAP Alliance APJ, AWS Manjunath Chandrashekhar, Director SAP Business Technology Platform CoE APJ, SAP Introduction Many SAP customers are looking at ways to get more out of their SAP investments by introducing custom code within their core […]

AWS and SAP BTP: driving more value from your SAP ERP journey to the cloud

This blog is co-authored by Dan Kearnan, Sr. Director SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP and Amr Elmeleegy, World Wide SAP Business Development Manager, AWS. Why customers are moving ERP to the cloud In a bid to transition from legacy to modern data platforms, organizations of all stripes and sizes are moving their on-premises ERP systems to […]

Decision Tree of SAP Data Extraction

Architecture Options for Extracting SAP Data with AWS Services

Introduction Gartner found that nearly 97% of data sits unused by organisations, and more than 87% of the organisations are classified as having low maturity levels in terms of business intelligence and analytics capability. This capability deficit could severely restrict a company’s growth and introduce risk to its existence as it cannot reinvent itself. Every […]

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 1 – Architecture design patterns

Introduction Cloud Security is job zero at AWS. We have a Shared Responsibility Model where customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software as well as the configuration of the AWS services. A common question that organizations that are new to SAP on AWS […]