Category: Management Tools

Introduction Optimizing SAP operations on AWS requires efficient monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance capabilities. Building on our previous discussion of Amazon CloudWatch Application Insight in part 1, How we use CloudWatch Application Insight to monitor SAP High Availability in part 2, and Amazon CloudWatch Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Amazon Q for command line (Q […]

Introduction In today’s complex SAP environments, efficient operations and rapid troubleshooting are critical for business continuity. Building on our previous discussions of SAP observability (part-1) and Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights capabilites (part-2), this third installment introduces a powerful combination of tools that revolutionizes how teams manage SAP landscapes: Amazon CloudWatch Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server […]

Introduction Conducting adequate load testing of SAP systems is a major factor in ensuring the systems can meet the performance and reliability expectations of the business when under peak usage. Typical scenarios which require load testing are new company/country rollouts, software release upgrades from ECC to S/4HANA, application patching (e.g., support packages), S/4HANA transformation projects […]

SAP’s rapid adoption of RISE with SAP and SAP BTP has led to managing over 7,000 AWS accounts across 33 regions. To address this scale, SAP developed a “Secure by Default” framework, leveraging AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, S3, and Lambda for comprehensive security monitoring and automated remediation. This automated, scalable approach ensures a strong security posture across SAP’s extensive cloud footprint, allowing customers to focus on their core business with confidence in their AWS-hosted environments.

Introduction In the second part of our blog series, we will share more details on each of the key capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, to aid in using the insights gained, to catch trends in your system, understand the overall health of your SAP landscape, and react accordingly, to maximize your business continuity. The […]

Introduction One reason thousands of customers choose AWS to run their mission-critical SAP workloads is to improve reliability and business resilience. In fact, a 2023 IDC report found that customers who run S/4HANA on AWS experience 58% less unplanned downtime vs. on-premises. Increasingly, SAP customers are choosing RISE with SAP on AWS to support their […]

Enterprises who rely on SAP systems for business-critical processes have stringent availability and performance requirements making observability strategy an important part of operational efficiency. Organizations with large SAP estate(s) running solutions such as SAP HANA, Suite on HANA, or SAP S/4HANA have multiple observability options for these environments. Solutions like SAP Solution Manager, Amazon CloudWatch […]

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 […]

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) […]

  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 […]