AWS for SAP
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AWS for SAP
42m ago
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 explore how SAP Private Link provides a secure, private pathway for utilizing AWS native services within the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). This approach allows for the safe and private utilization of AWS native services, thereby fac ..read more
AWS for SAP
1w ago
Automate deployment of SAP systems on ASE database with AWS Launch Wizard
AWS Launch Wizard for SAP is a service that guides you through the sizing, configuration, and deployment of SAP applications on AWS in accordance with AWS, SAP, and operating system vendor best practices. We are excited to announce that last month, we built on existing capabilities supporting SAP HANA, adding support for automating deployment of SAP systems running on ASE databases. Customers can use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy SAP solutions such as NetWeaver ABAP, Java, and Solution Manager applications onto ..read more
AWS for SAP
1w ago
In a 2021 study done by ASUG and Pillir, the average annual spend to maintain the most valuable SAP custom code was $800,000. For 37% of organizations, this represents up to 50% of their annual IT spend. At the same time, 91% of SAP users rely heavily on SAP Custom code to run their mission critical business processes. The maintenance cost of custom code is exponentially increasing with every SAP upgrades and modernization project.
SAP introduced the clean core approach which essentially advocates for keeping the core of SAP S/4HANA out-of-the-box while extending functionality through SAP Busi ..read more
AWS for SAP
1M ago
Introduction
Enterprise applications generate a lot of data. Analyzing this data helps stakeholders make informed decisions. Enterprises use AI/ML for automating business processes, finding patterns at scale, and more.
SAP is one of the most extensively used ERP solutions for different industries of varied scales and complexities. SAP systems are often integrated with external systems to pull data into SAP systems for different business processes. Customers need a unified view of their data to drive real-time visibility and better decision-making beyond their SAP ecosystem.
AWS helps customer ..read more
AWS for SAP
1M ago
Background
Customers are always looking to improve their operational excellence and resiliency of their core business processes in SAP systems. To achieve this, they need a consolidated monitoring/observability dashboard for their SAP landscape, so they can correlate issues, and understand whether they are in the database, application server, presentation, or network layers, (including Internet connectivity) or others.
AWS provides end-to-end observability through Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for SAP HANA, CloudWatch Application Insights for SAP NetWeaver, CloudWatch Real User Monito ..read more
AWS for SAP
1M ago
Introduction
In the current economic climate, cost optimization is a key priority for many businesses. As companies modernize their SAP implementations, optimizing the cost of running SAP workloads can free up resources which can instead be used for innovation. This blog shares insights and strategies for optimizing SAP workload costs and operations, leveraging best practices from SAP Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Before you start
Before starting, you need to set clear target goals for your desired outcomes, identify your overall costs, and review the SAP on AWS cost estimation ..read more
AWS for SAP
3M ago
AWS Launch Wizard for SAP allows customers to automate the deployment of SAP applications such as SAP S/4HANA. It also provides customers the ability to personalize their SAP systems with the help of pre/post configuration scripts. Pre-deployment configuration scripts run right after the instances are launched and baseline Launch Wizard configuration activities – such as deploying AWS CLI, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Systems Manager agents – are completed. Post-deployment configuration scripts run when Launch Wizard completes configuration activities specific to the SAP application on al ..read more
AWS for SAP
4M ago
Automate SAP Deployments with AWS Launch Wizard for SAP APIs
AWS Launch Wizard offers customers a fully automated process for deploying secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient HANA-based SAP applications on AWS in just a few hours vs. weeks or months on-premises. The AWS Launch Wizard for SAP service provisions all of the necessary AWS resources required to install and configure the SAP application and HANA database systems following both AWS, SAP, and operating system vendor best practices. Customers like Nvidia, UNOX, and Storengy have accelerated their SAP migration by taking adva ..read more
AWS for SAP
4M ago
Introduction
SAP HANA is the defacto database for new SAP deployments and will be the only choice in the near future, with SAP ending general support for all non-HANA based systems by 2027. Patching databases in a consistent and automated manner is key to reduce TCO, especially for customers who operate a large number of HANA instances. Often times, HANA System Replication (HSR) is also enabled between HANA nodes. When combining this with pacemaker clusters, customers achieve HA architecture for their databases. When the database is clustered in this fashion, you can benefit from the nZDT (nea ..read more
AWS for SAP
5M ago
This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS:
Pavol Masarovic, EMEA Principal SAP Innovation Architect
Allison Quinn, Senior Analytics Solutions Architect Australia and New Zealand
Peter Perbellini, Head of APJ Solutions Architecture, ERP on AWS
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 organization. Aligned to our Joint Reference Architecture (JRA), AWS has integrated our native services to bring additional va ..read more