Category: SAP on AWS

Introduction Scheduling jobs in SAP is one of the routine operational tasks for customers running SAP workloads. SAP customers often use the transaction SM37 to run batch jobs within their SAP systems. When there are requirements for complex job scheduling and dependencies across multiple SAP systems, customers typically will use a third-party batch scheduling tool. […]

Introduction SAP customers with global operations are generally interested in enabling their entire workforce access SAP applications at any time, from any device, and from anywhere. Access at any time is easy to achieve, by making the services to be accessed, available around the clock. Access from any device is a key feature of SAP […]

Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, a single-tenant, SAP-managed S/4HANA solution that also includes SAP Business Technology Platform and other SAP software in a single contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift). Additionally, SAP […]

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 […]

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 In part I we discussed how to use managed AWS Config rules to automatically audit and assess the of your SAP landscape. We provided a solution to ensure your EC2 instances are configured per SAP best practices. At present, AWS offers more than 160 such managed rules in its North Virginia Region. Along with […]