Cloud Assessment for SAP Systems

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of guidelines for designing and running cloud workloads that are reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable. The framework is divided into six pillars:

• Operational excellence: This pillar focuses on managing and operating your workloads in a way that reduces risk and improves efficiency.
• Security: This pillar focuses on protecting your workloads from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
• Reliability: This pillar focuses on ensuring that your workloads are available and perform as expected.
• Performance efficiency: This pillar focuses on using your IT and computing resources efficiently.
• Cost optimization: This pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs.
• Sustainability: This pillar focuses on reducing the environmental impact of your workloads.

To assess your cloud workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework using an SAP lens, you can use the AWS Well-Architected Tool and consider the following SAP-specific best practices:

• Design for high availability and disaster recovery: SAP workloads require high availability and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to ensure business continuity.
• Implement robust security controls: SAP workloads contain sensitive data, so it is important to implement robust security controls to protect this data.
• Optimize performance for SAP workloads: SAP workloads can be performance-intensive, so it is important to optimize your cloud infrastructure to support these workloads.
• Manage costs effectively: SAP workloads can be expensive to run, so it is important to manage your cloud costs effectively.
• Implement sustainable practices: SAP workloads can have a significant environmental impact, so it is important to implement sustainable practices to reduce this impact.

By following these SAP-specific best practices, you can improve the reliability, security, performance efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of your SAP workloads in the cloud.