AWS for SAP

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Licensing Optimization for SAP Applications with Amazon EC2 CPU Options

Introduction SAP offers multiple products with different licensing options for customers. An example is SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOBJ) which supports Concurrent Sessions (CS) / Concurrent Access License (CAL), Named User (NU) and CPU License types. Understanding the different license options available is important for customers to optimize their costs when running in AWS. When customers […]

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules

This post was jointly authored by the following individuals from AWS and Fortinet: Ferry Mulyadi, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Derek Ewell, Principal Partner Solution Architect, AWS Julian Petersohn, Global SAP Engineer, Fortinet Fabian Lee, Solution Architect, AWS Introduction Per CyberCrime’s editor in chief Steve Morgan “Cybercrime To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually by […]

Automate invoice processing with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP

Introduction: why are customers implementing Intelligent Document Processing? Enterprises deal with large volumes of structured and unstructured data on a daily basis. Invoice processing, contract management, and financial reporting are just a few examples where businesses need to process a large number of documents efficiently. Manual processing of such documents can be tedious and error-prone. […]

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Getting started with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP

Introduction Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008 and many of these SAP customers have been developing and enhancing their SAP business process using ABAP for much longer. Many customers’ business processes rely on custom ABAP code, and have teams of ABAP developers in-house or through their partners. However, innovating with AWS […]

Automate High Availability Tests for SAP HANA

Introduction The software development and operations industry has been modernizing and increasingly, applying DevOps as the standard approach to its processes. However, SAP installation and operations still tend to be very much manually driven. To help evolve this to an automated approach, we’ve demonstrated in our first blog post how to provision the infrastructure for […]

Example architecture of a Single node HANA to Single node HANA migration using Migration Hub Orchestrator

Migrating SAP HANA-based systems using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator

Why use AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator service Thousands of customers worldwide trust AWS to run their mission-critical SAP applications. For SAP applications that are still on-premises, many customers are looking for an easier way to migrate to AWS while following AWS and SAP best practices. AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator for SAP reduces the time and […]

Application Load Balancer for SAP Enterprise Portal

Introduction For SAP Java applications such as SAP Enterprise Portal (EP), customers use SAP Web dispatcher as an entry point of their HTTP(s) requests. SAP Web dispatcher receives the requests  coming from internet or intranet and distributes the requests among the application servers. For internet-based HTTP(s) requests, SAP Web dispatcher needs to be accessible to […]

Automate and Simplify SAP HANA Backups with AWS Backup

Introduction SAP HANA Workloads running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are often at the core of an Enterprise, responsible for critical business processes including finance, procurement and payroll. A reliable backup and restore approach is essential to ensure that the data within these systems is protected, and there is a recovery option for scenarios in […]

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Monitor SAP Applications using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

Introduction SAP applications support critical business processes and therefore, customers require a comprehensive view of their SAP applications’ health and actionable insights to maintain the highest levels of security, availability, and performance. Since 2019, Amazon Web Services customers have been using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights to monitor applications like Microsoft SQL Server databases and .NET-based […]

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Modernize your SAP eco-system with SAP BTP and AWS services

Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008. SAP and AWS have partnered for 14+ years to jointly innovate for our customers. Our guiding star has been to bring flexibility and agility of the AWS platform to run SAP workloads.​ SAP has consistently leveraged AWS services over the years to run internal systems and […]