Category: Storage

Innovation and agility are key to staying ahead in the digital landscape, and thus businesses are increasingly looking to leverage the power of cloud services. However, a significant hurdle that many organizations face is the risk associated with transmitting sensitive data over the public internet. Recognizing this challenge, our focus in this blog is to […]

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 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 […]

Introduction AWS has been supporting SAP workloads in the cloud since 2008, and SAP customers in the cloud since 2011. Over these years, our customers running SAP workloads have witnessed unprecedented growth in the data generated by their enterprises. As a consequence, customers have been looking for low latency and enhanced performance for their databases […]

Introduction At AWS, we commonly hear from customers that they are looking to not only move their SAP systems to the cloud, but transform the way they use data and analytics capabilities within the organisation. Furthermore, they want to combine the SAP data with non-SAP data in a single data and analytics solution on AWS. […]

In the words of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy ‘there is no compression algorithm for experience’. With over 5000 SAP customers on AWS, AWS has become a platform for innovation for SAP workloads. With our working backwards leadership principle, AWS has built several tools and services to help SAP customers build robust, reliable and scalable SAP […]

Introduction A Disaster Recovery (DR) solution is an important aspect of SAP system design. For customers running their SAP workloads on AWS, some of the key considerations for the design of the DR solution are single or multiple AWS Region or Availability Zones, Service Level Agreements such as Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time […]

Introduction In our first blog, Terraform your SAP Infrastructure on AWS, we began the SAP on AWS DevOps journey by defining the SAP infrastructure as code (IaC) . By doing this, we demonstrated with our Terraform modules here on GitHub and here on the Terraform Registry, by defining SAP as code, infrastructure and servers can quickly be deployed […]

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 […]