AWS for SAP

This is the first blog post in a 3-part series about VPC subnet zoning patterns for SAP on AWS. It summarizes ways in which SAP applications may be accessed, and covers possible architecture patterns for the first category of applications–those that are accessible only internally.

Discusses how you can use the database migration option (DMO), which is a feature of the SAP Software Update Manager (SUM) tool, to migrate your on-premises anyDB database to SAP HANA on AWS.

Are you planning to migrate your SAP applications to the SAP HANA platform or start a new implementation with SAP HANA? If so, you might be wondering what options AWS provides to run your SAP HANA workloads. This post discusses the core infrastructure components required for SAP HANA and the building blocks that AWS provides to help you build your virtual appliance for SAP HANA on AWS.

AWS has worked with SAP to certify additional scale-out architectures for SAP Business Warehouse on HANA and can now support workloads requiring up to 4 TB of memory. This sets the record for SAP HANA scale-out nodes in the cloud, and validates AWS is an ideal solution for enterprise customers to cost effectively run SAP HANA. Find out more in this blog post.

SAP has been a member of the Amazon Partner Network (APN) since 2011 and since then, we have worked together to certify multiple SAP solutions on AWS, including a number of configurations of Business One, and most recently SAP Business One on HANA to run on the AWS Cloud. Read about the benefits of this certification.

The new compute-optimized EC2 instances of the C4 family are certified for general SAP usage. This blog post describes how this family of instances enables SAP customers to improve their performance and the price/performance for compute-intensive SAP workloads compared to the older C3 instance family.