AWS for SAP

Category: Thought Leadership

Observability for SAP on AWS High Availability Architecture with Pacemaker

Enhance your business process resilience with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights Observability for SAP High Availability – Part 2

Introduction In the second part of our blog series, we will share more details on each of the key capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, to aid in using the insights gained, to catch trends in your system, understand the overall health of your SAP landscape, and react accordingly, to maximize your business continuity. The […]

Figure-1: SAP HA deployment in two Availability Zones (AZ)

Improve your SAP business process resilience with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

Introduction One reason thousands of customers choose AWS to run their mission-critical SAP workloads is to improve reliability and business resilience. In fact, a 2023 IDC report found that customers who run S/4HANA on AWS experience 58% less unplanned downtime vs. on-premises. Increasingly, SAP customers are choosing RISE with SAP on AWS to support their […]

Improve your productivity with Amazon Q and Bedrock for SAP use cases

Introduction to generative AI Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) is a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. AI technologies attempt to mimic human intelligence in non-traditional computing tasks like image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and translation. It is supported with a very large […]

Data insights from SAP with Amazon SageMaker AutoML and QuickSight

Introduction Enterprise applications generate a lot of data. Analyzing this data helps stakeholders make informed decisions. Enterprises use AI/ML for automating business processes, finding patterns at scale, and more. SAP is one of the most extensively used ERP solutions for different industries of varied scales and complexities. SAP systems are often integrated with external systems […]

Use case where mobile users reported slowness when accessing SAP Fiori Launchpad from Internet

End-to-End Observability for SAP on AWS : Part 1 Overview

Background Customers are always looking to improve their operational excellence and resiliency of their core business processes in SAP systems. To achieve this, they need a consolidated monitoring/observability dashboard for their SAP landscape, so they can correlate issues, and understand whether they are in the database, application server, presentation, or network layers, (including Internet connectivity) […]

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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 […]

Overview of SAP BTP on AWS JRA

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 […]