AWS for SAP

Category: Thought Leadership

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 […]

Figure 1. Interaction between SAP Fiori, the SAP Fiori user, CloudWatch RUM, and the DevOps engineer

Monitor and Optimize SAP Fiori User Experience on AWS

Introduction SAP Fiori is the user interface component of modern SAP applications such as S/4HANA, which enables business users to execute their business critical processes within SAP. It is based on SAP’s own HTML5 implementation called SAPUI5 and relies on the HTTPs protocol and modern web browsers as the client. As you are operating SAP […]

SAP Fiori with WAF Architecture

Securing SAP Fiori with AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)

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 […]

Improving SAP Fiori Performance with Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator

Introduction SAP customers with global operations are generally interested in enabling their entire workforce access SAP applications at any time, from any device, and from anywhere. Access at any time is easy to achieve, by making the services to be accessed, available around the clock. Access from any device is a key feature of SAP […]