This document discusses accelerating digital transformation by running SAP on AWS. It notes that SAP implementations often face challenges around budget, timeline and value delivery. Running SAP on AWS can help increase the odds of success by providing speed, security, flexibility and agility. AWS offers a variety of compute and storage options optimized for SAP and quick start templates to simplify deployment. The alliance between AWS and SAP aims to fully leverage cloud capabilities. Customers can reduce costs, improve performance and drive innovation by extending SAP with AWS big data and machine learning services.