This document summarizes a presentation about running SAP solutions on AWS. It discusses the benefits of running SAP on AWS like lower costs, increased agility, and elasticity. It covers SAP certifications and support on AWS, as well as enterprise use cases. Common SAP architecture patterns for deploying SAP on AWS are described, like single-instance and multi-AZ configurations. Finally, it shares customer case studies of companies like Brooks Brothers and Kellogg's that have moved SAP workloads to AWS.

1. Running SAP Solutions on AWS
Shailesh Albuquerque, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

2. Topics
• Benefits of running SAP on AWS.
• SAP certification and support.
• Enterprise use cases for SAP.
• SAP architecture patterns ( Business Suite/ HANA).
• Customer case studies.

3. Who Am I ?
• Solutions Architect at AWS since 2012.
• Based in Bangalore, India.

4. Who Are You ?
• SAP Architect/Consultant.
• SAP BASIS / IT Administrator.
• SAP Application Owner.
• Partner / Systems Integrator.

5. Benefits of Running
SAP on AWS

6. AWS Advantages and Benefits
Lower overall cost
Benefit from AWS’s economies of scale and
efficiencies. Only pay for what you use.
End Hardware Refresh Cycles
No longer have to plan and manage
hardware refreshes every 3-5 years
Increase speed and agility
Provision new infrastructure and SAP systems in
minutes vs. days, weeks or months
Replace CapEx with OpEx
Start using AWS with no up-front cost or
commitment and only pay for what you use
Elasticity
Scale resources automatically up or down as
needed. Both vertical and horizontal scaling
Stop guessing capacity
On-demand access to virtually unlimited
compute, storage and network capacity

7. Why AWS for SAP
All SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver applications
(FI, HR, BI/BW, SRM, Solution Manager, SAP PO, etc.)
Leverage Multi-AZ for production workloads
x86 Intel processor, up to 128 vCPUs x 2 TB RAM, SSD-
backed storage for tens of thousands of IOPS
Amazon S3 storage is designed to provide
99.999999999% durability
Enterprise-level security
Pricing, sizing, management, and operations
SAP Supported Platform
High Availability
High Performance
High Durability
Secured platform
Flexible

8. Elasticity for SAP
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Traditional AWS Demand
Data
Center
Capacity
AWS
Usage
Business
Demand

9. SAP TCO study on AWS
“…VMS calculates that AWS offers
savings between 58% and 69%.”
Download link -
https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers
/vms-sap-tco/

10. SAP Certifications and
Support

11. SAP Solutions Certified
• SAP HANA
• SAP S/4 HANA
• SAP Business Suite
• SAP Business All-in-One
• SAP Business One
• SAP Business Objects
• SAP Database and Mobile Solutions
SAP Note #165609 contains the latest information regarding
SAP product, landscape and platform support on AWS

12. Database and OS
• SAP HANA
• Microsoft SQL Server 20008 R2 or
higher
• Sybase ASE 15.7.0.051or higher
• IBM DB2 9.7 or higher
• SAP MaxDB 7.8 or later
• SAP IQ, version 16.0 SP08 PL20 or
higher
• SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP1 or
higher
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 or higher
• Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 or higher
Database Operating Systems

13. SAP Certified EC2 Instances
Memory Optimized
x1.32xlarge : 128 vCPUs, 1.952 GiB RAM, 131,500 SAPS
m4.8xlarge : 40 vCPUs, 160 GiB RAM, 44,280 SAPS
Compute Optimized c4.8xlarge : 36 vCPUs, 60 GiB RAM, 37,950 SAPS
General Purpose
r3.8xlarge : 32vCPUs, 244 GiB RAM, 31,920 SAPS

14. X1 for HANA – 2TB of Memory
• Powered by four 2.3 GHz Intel® Xeon E7 8880 v3
(Haswell) processors.
• Up to 10 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon
Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and are EBS-
optimized by default
• Certified by SAP to run environments for
• Business Suite S/4HANA,
• Business production Suite on HANA (SoH),
• Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), and
• Data Mart Solutions on HANA on the AWS cloud.

15. SAP HANA offerings on AWS
• On-demand infrastructure for SAP HANA using
existing licenses
• Supported HANA scenarios:
• Native HANA applications
• Data marts / analytics / big data
• Business Suite on HANA
• Business Warehouse and BPC on HANA
• Business One on HANA
• X1: Scale-up to 2 TB
• R3: Scale up to 244 GB / Scale-out to 4 TB
SAP HANA BYOL

16. SAP HANA offerings on AWS
• On-demand SAP HANA systems using on-demand, $0.99/hour license
• Supported HANA scenarios:
• Native HANA applications
• Data marts / analytics / big data
• On-demand per hour license sold by SAP via the AWS Marketplace –
$0.99 | $1.99 | $3.99
• Memory: 60 GB | 122 GB | 244 GB
SAP HANA One

17. SAP HANA offerings on AWS
• On-demand SAP HANA systems
for developers.
• Supported use cases: Non-
production
• Supported HANA scenarios:
• Native HANA applications
• Data marts / analytics / big data
• Licensing: Free developer license
provided by SAP
• Supported use cases: Non-production
• Systems available:
• SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition
• SAP BW powered by SAP HANA
• SAP CRM powered by SAP HANA
• Licensing: Free trial license provided by
SAP; customer pays for underlying
AWS infrastructure used during duration
of trial period
SAP HANA Developer Edition SAP HANA Trial Systems

18. SAP HANA Quick Start Reference Deployment
Provides an automated process to
deploy a complete SAP HANA
environment on the AWS cloud in
less than 1 hour
Uses AWS CloudFormation to
provision all required AWS
resources
Configures network and security
settings following best practices
Quick Start Reference
Deployment Guide

19. Single Node Architecture – SAP HANA

20. Scale out Architecture – SAP HANA

21. Enterprise Use Cases
for SAP

22. How Customers and Partners use AWS for SAP
Extend Existing IT Infrastructure to the AWS Cloud
 Run SAP Test, Training, Demo, POC and Sandbox systems on AWS
 Migrate SAP DEV and QAS landscapes to AWS
 Temporary infrastructure for SAP upgrades and OS/DB migrations
 DR site for on-premises SAP production environments
 SAP Document and Data Archiving to AWS Cloud Storage

23. SAP Hybrid deployment on AWS
Customer
Data
Centers
VPN or
Direct
Connect
Virtual Private Cloud
DEV QAS
ECC
BW
SRM
ECC
BW
SRM
BW
ECC
SRM
PRD
SAP Production landscape runs
in customer’s own datacentre
SAP Development &
Quality Assurance
landscape runs on AWS

24. How Customers and Partners use AWS for SAP
Extend Existing IT Infrastructure to the AWS Cloud
 Run SAP Test, Training, Demo, POC and Sandbox systems on AWS
 Migrate SAP DEV and QAS landscapes to AWS
 Temporary infrastructure for SAP upgrades and OS/DB migrations
 DR site for on-premises SAP production environments
 SAP Document and Data Archiving to AWS Cloud Storage
Host Complete SAP Environments on the AWS Cloud

25. Full SAP Deployment on AWS
Virtual Private Cloud
DEV QAS
ECC
Customer runs DEV, QAS, & PRD on
AWS
PRD
VPN or
Direct
Connect
Secure
connectivity
between
LAN & AWS
network
Customer
LAN
BW
SRM
ECC
BW
SRM
ECC
BW
SRM

26. SAP Architecture Patterns

27. SAP Landscape Architecture in AWS
• Single System Architecture
• SAP Application and Database are installed on a Single EC2 Instances
• Distributed System Architecture
• SAP Application and Database are installed on separate instances
• With and With-Out Third Party Applications for High Availability

28. Single Instance Architecture
In this configuration all components of
SAP are installed or setup to run on a
single EC2 instance that is certified for
SAP
Typically this configuration is used for
• Dev, Sandbox, POC systems
• SAP Systems that can be stopped for
maintenance activities
• Systems which can withstand downtime
needed to recover sap application and
database components from backups in
case of disasters
Availability Zone A
Amazon S3
EBS
Volumes
Amazon Glacier
Backups taken to S3
every x hours
Archived and
stored for month
snapshot
Transport
volume Snapshot
CI/DB
Region 1

29. Multi AZ, High Availability for DB
Architecture
Database is deployed on multiple
nodes providing near High Available
in multiple Availability zones
Typically this configuration is used for
• QA & Production systems
• Uptime is critical for business
• Systems that have variable load pattern
and scaling the Application server tier
horizontally is beneficial for lower TCO
• For systems that need to be operational
with in minutes of AZ failure situations
leveraging the AMI’s of ASCS and APP
along with standby database in AZ-B
Availability Zone A
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Backups are shipped to S3
every x hours for a month
Archived and
stored for month
snapshot
APP APP
CI, DATABASE & APP
Snapshot
Availability Zone B
APP
EBS
Volumes
EBS
Volumes
Replication
Region 1
DB S/B
DB
ASCS
EFS
Route53
ASCS AMI
App AMI

30. Partner tools for High Availability
Third Party Software
Availability Zone
Security group
Amazon S3
Backups are shipped to S3 every
x hours for a month
Snapshot
Availability Zone
Security group
Backups are shipped to S3
every x hours for a month
ASCS + DB
Agent
ASCS + DB
Agent
APP APP APP APP
Auto Failover of
SAP ASCS
processes and
Database
Third-party
clustering/Failover
software
• SIOS
• NEC(HANA)
• SUSE Cluster

31. Customer Case Studies

32. Brooks Brothers
• Needed a more agile way of testing
new business initiatives
• Moved its SAP HANA platform to AWS
• Launches new instances in hours
instead of weeks
• Saves thousands in data center costs,
freeing up capital for new initiatives
• Scales business applications globally
Brooks Brothers is a leading U.S. retailer of
fashion and accessories.
Using AWS ... we can be
more nimble, which opens up
many more possibilities for
our business.
Sahal Laher
Executive Vice President and CEO,
”
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33. Kelloggs
Kellogg produces breakfast foods for more than 180
companies worldwide, with annual revenue of almost $15 B.
Using AWS saves us
$900,000 in infrastructure
costs alone, and lets us run
dozens of simulations a day
so we can reduce trade
spend. It’s a win-win.
• Running SAP Accelerated Trade
Promotion Planning (TPM) – Powered
by SAP HANA
• By using SAP HANA on AWS, Kellogg
estimates it will save $900,000 over 5
years vs. traditional on-premises
infrastructure alternatives
• Increased business agility: Company
can run dozens of trade spend
simulations each day, and decreases
deployment time by 30x
Stover McIlwain
Senior Director of IT Infrastructure Engineering
”
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34. Macmillan Education
Macmillan India has provided publishing services to the
education market in India for more than 120 years
Availability for our SAP
applications has improved
from 90 percent to almost 100
percent since moving to AWS
• Macmillian has migrated several SAP
modules to AWS including SAP Business
Intelligence (BI), SAP Sales and
Distribution, SAP Materials Management,
SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling
and SAP Human Resources
• The company has reduced the time needed
to provision a new environment from six
weeks to 30 minutes,
Navnit Pandita
IT Infrastructure Head for Macmillan India
”
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35. Resources
http://aws.amazon.com/sap
 Whitepapers & Guides
 SAP Notes
 Support Information
 AWS SAP Partners

36. Online Labs & Training
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experience with AWS.
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Certification
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