Category: SAP on AWS

Omnichannel strategies have become the norm for organizations across industries. In this environment, businesses often face the challenge of integrating different systems to ensure seamless data flow and near real-time updates. Especially in e-commerce businesses, showing up-to-date inventory of a product that customers want to buy is extremely critical. Lack of access to accurate inventory […]

Introduction Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights helps you monitor your applications that use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances along with other underlying AWS resources. It identifies and sets up key metrics, logs, and alarms across your application resources and technology stack by continuously monitoring metrics and logs to detect and correlate anomalies and errors. When […]

For customers running SAP on AWS, having a solid backup strategy is crucial for safeguarding their database and SAP application non-database file systems. Backups play a critical role in running SAP workloads by allowing for the recovery of systems in the event of data loss. With numerous third-party, database-native, and AWS-native options available, choosing the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Introduction: why are customers implementing Intelligent Document Processing? Enterprises deal with large volumes of structured and unstructured data on a daily basis. Invoice processing, contract management, and financial reporting are just a few examples where businesses need to process a large number of documents efficiently. Manual processing of such documents can be tedious and error-prone. […]

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 SAP HANA Workloads running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are often at the core of an Enterprise, responsible for critical business processes including finance, procurement and payroll. A reliable backup and restore approach is essential to ensure that the data within these systems is protected, and there is a recovery option for scenarios in […]