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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS

Overview

This Guidance provides the essential data foundation for empowering customers to build data and analytics solutions. It shows how to integrate data from SAP ERP source systems and AWS in real-time or batch mode, with change data capture, using AWS services, SAP products, and AWS Partner Solutions. This Guidance includes an overview reference architecture showing how to ingest SAP systems to AWS in addition to five detailed architectural patterns that complement SAP-supported mechanisms (such as OData, ODP, SLT, and BTP) using AWS services, SAP products, and AWS Partner Solutions.

How it works

Overview of Architecture Patterns

This reference architecture shows various options for ingesting data from SAP systems to AWS. These architecture patterns complement SAP supported mechanisms using AWS Services, SAP Products, and AWS Partner Solutions. For detailed architecture patterns, open the other tabs.

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Architecture diagram showing how SAP source systems integrate with AWS Cloud managed and instance-based services, including Amazon AppFlow, AWS Glue, SAP Datasphere, SAP Data Services, and SAP SLT, as well as landing in AWS Analytics Services such as Amazon S3, Redshift, Kinesis, and RDS.

AWS Managed Services

This architecture diagram shows how to ingest SAP data to AWS using AWS glue. For the other architecture patterns, open the other tabs.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - AWS Managed Services

AWS Partner Solution - Theobald Xtract Universal

This architecture diagram shows how to ingest SAP data to AWS using the Partner Solution Theobald Software Xtract Universal.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - AWS Partner Solution - Theobald Xtract Universal

AWS Partner Solution - Qlik Replicate

This architecture diagram shows SAP ERP connectivity and data integration with Qlik Replicate.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - Qlik Replicate

AWS Partner Solution - BryteFlow Ingest

This architecture diagram shows how to ingest SAP data to AWS using the AWS Partner Solution BryteFlow SAP Data Lake Builder.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - BryteFlow Ingest

How it works (continued)

Using SAP BDC Datasphere, Data Services

This architecture diagram shows how to ingest SAP data to AWS using SAP Datasphere or SAP Data Services.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - SAP BDC Datasphere

Using SLT

This architecture diagram shows how to ingest SAP data to AWS using SAP SLT.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - Using SLT

SNP GLUE, an SAP NetWeaver Add-On Solution by SNP

This architecture diagram shows how to use SAP NetWeaver add-on solution SNP Glue to extract data from SAP to AWS.

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Guidance for SAP Data Integration and Management on AWS - SNP GLUE, an SAP NetWeaver Add-On Solution by SNP

Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

AWS CloudFormation automates the deployment process, while CloudWatch provides observability, tracking, and tracing capabilities. The entire solution can be deployed using CloudFormation, which helps automate deployments across development, quality assurance, and production accounts. This automation can be integrated into your development pipeline, enabling iterative development and consistent deployments across your SAP landscape.

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IAM secures AWS Glue and Amazon AppFlow through permission controls and authentication. These managed services access only specified data. Amazon AppFlow facilitates access to SAP workloads. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. AWS CloudTrail logs API calls for auditing. S3 buckets and cross-region replication can store data. For enhanced security, run Amazon AppFlow over AWS PrivateLink with Elastic Load Balancing and SSL termination using AWS Certificate Manager.

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Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue can reliably move large volumes of data without breaking it down into batches. Amazon S3 provides industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance for SAP data export and import. PrivateLink is a regional service, and as part of the Amazon AppFlow setup using PrivateLink, you will set up at least 50 percent of Availability Zones in the Region (minimum two Availability Zones per Region), providing an additional level of redundancy for ELB.

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The SAP operational data provisioning framework captures changed data. Parallelization features in Amazon AppFlow and AWS Partner Solutions like BryteFlow and SNP enable customers to choose the number of parallel processes to run in the background, parallelizing large data volumes. Amazon S3 offers improved throughput with multi-part uploads through supported data integration mechanisms. The parallelization capabilities and seamless integration with Amazon S3 allow for efficient and scalable data ingestion from SAP systems into AWS.

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By using serverless technologies like Amazon AppFlow or AWS Glue and Amazon EC2 auto scaling, you only pay for the resources you consume. To optimize costs further, extract only the required business data groups by leveraging semantic data models (for example, BW extractors or CDS views). Minimize the number of flows based on your reporting granularity needs. Implement housekeeping by setting up data tiering or deletion in Amazon S3 for old or unwanted data.

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Data extraction workloads can be scheduled or invoked in real-time, eliminating the need for underlying infrastructure to run continuously. Using serverless and auto-scaling services is a sustainable approach for data extraction workloads, as these components activate only when needed. By leveraging managed services and dynamic scaling, you minimize the environmental impact of backend services. Adopt new options for Amazon AppFlow as they become available to optimize the volume and frequency of extraction.

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Disclaimer

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