SAP¶

Notes¶

Bring-your-own software and license is the primary model for most SAP applications and database products on AWS
Some SAP solutions are available on AWS with on-demand, free trial, and free developer licenses

SAP licensing for AWS works in two ways:

Bring-your-own software and bring-your-own license models
Select licenses available as on-demand, free trial, or free developer

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S/4HANA transformation is ideal for customers who want to completely modernize their SAP landscape, implement advanced analytics in ERP, and enable real-time business processes.

Key adoption scenarios are lift and shift, refactoring on HANA, S/4HANA transformation, and Beyond Infrastructure.

SAP offers traditional solutions, platform solutions, and SaaS solutions, as well as products that can be deployed either on-premises or in the cloud.

AWS helps customers migrate their workloads to AWS and also creates more value by enabling them to integrate their SAP applications with AWS services and build extensions.

. The SAP Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles and best practices for ensuring SAP workloads on AWS are well-architected. It is based on insights that AWS has gathered from customers, AWS Partners, and the SAP specialist community. The lens has been designed to help you adopt a cloud-first approach to running SAP. It highlights some of the most common areas for improvement, aligned to the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

AWS supports SAP solutions like SAP HANA, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP NetWeaver, and SAP AnyDB.

You can operate existing SAP AnyDB workloads on AWS. Supported database platforms for SAP AnyDB on AWS include the following:

Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2
Oracle Database
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) (Only supported for SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP Commerce, previously known as SAP Hybris Commerce)
Amazon Aurora (Only supported for SAP Commerce)

Agenda¶

Describe networking components for SAP on AWS using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Identify how to connect an SAP environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Data Provider for SAP¶

To run SAP workloads, you should set up the AWS Data Provider for SAP. This is a daemon or service that automatically starts with your operating system and collects, aggregates, and exposes metrics to the SAP platform. The AWS Data Provider for SAP is a mandatory component for receiving integrated support from SAP and AWS. It gathers the following data:

Specific AWS information about instance type and instance ID
Key system configuration, such as number of processors, main memory, and disks
Key parameters of CPU, memory, disks, and network resource consumption data