AWS for SAP
Event-Driven Architectures with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP
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 […]
Automate incident management for SAP on AWS
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 […]
Simplify SAP Backups with AWS Services
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 […]
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 invoice processing with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP
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. […]
Getting started with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP
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 […]
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 […]
Migrating SAP HANA-based systems using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator
Why use AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator service Thousands of customers worldwide trust AWS to run their mission-critical SAP applications. For SAP applications that are still on-premises, many customers are looking for an easier way to migrate to AWS while following AWS and SAP best practices. AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator for SAP reduces the time and […]
Application Load Balancer for SAP Enterprise Portal
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 […]