AWS for SAP

This blog is aimed at reducing the operational overhead by performing a redirected restore of a SAP HANA database from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. We will walk you through the process of restoring a Production SAP HANA database from an Amazon S3 bucket to a target SAP HANA database running on a […]

Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard […]

Machine learning is increasingly becoming a core part of the digital transformation. It helps companies recognize patterns at scale and find novel ways to delight customers, streamline operations, or help make a product successful in a competitive marketplace. In practice, when you build an architecture based on machine learning, you need to understand the data, […]

Introduction Most companies have processes to better understand their customers and data is fast becoming the key to strengthening customer relationships. However, merely collecting data isn’t enough. While most organizations have access to plenty of data, determining the meaning behind the data can be difficult. In this blog post, we show how you can use […]

Background AWS has more than 5000 active customers running SAP on AWS, with workloads that run on a diverse set of SAP releases and versions. Most customers are working with SAP NetWeaver based environments composed of one or more application servers and a database. The best practice to achieve high availability of applications and databases […]

Each year, AWS re:Invent gives us an opportunity to connect with our customers, celebrate their successes, and announce new ways we intend to solve their challenges moving forward. While we couldn’t be together in person this year, we still had an incredible few weeks hearing from SAP customers as they showed us how they are […]

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 […]

Introduction As I reflect on 2020, I first want to acknowledge how unbelievably crazy it has been. Almost universally, our way of life has been changed due to COVID-19 and other world events, and it’s been difficult for so many. The pandemic forced organizations to make deep operational changes almost immediately to meet the needs […]

With more than 5,000 active customers running SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS has become the de facto cloud platform for SAP workloads. For years, customers have chosen AWS for their mission-critical SAP applications due to our high-performance, cost-effective global infrastructure, wide variety of Amazon EC2 instance types certified for SAP, and extensive experience […]

Introduction Organizations have been running SAP on AWS since 2008. From the beginning, our team has been listening to customers and rolling their feedback into the AWS platform to improve the SAP on AWS experience. Over this 13+ year journey, one thing that customers have told us repeatedly is that they want to deploy their […]