Running SAP Solutions on AWS

Shailesh Albuquerque, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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.

Who Am I ?

• Solutions Architect at AWS since 2012.

• Based in Bangalore, India.

Who Are You ?

• SAP Architect/Consultant.

• SAP BASIS / IT Administrator.

• SAP Application Owner.

• Partner / Systems Integrator.

Benefits of Running SAP on AWS

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

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

Elasticity for SAP

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Traditional AWS Demand

Data

Center

CapacityAWS

Usage

Business

Demand

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/

SAP Certifications and Support

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

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

SAP Certified EC2 Instances

Memory Optimizedx1.32xlarge : 128 vCPUs, 1.952 GiB RAM, 131,500 SAPS

m4.8xlarge : 40 vCPUs, 160 GiB RAM, 44,280 SAPS

Compute Optimizedc4.8xlarge : 36 vCPUs, 60 GiB RAM, 37,950 SAPS

General Purpose

r3.8xlarge : 32vCPUs, 244 GiB RAM, 31,920 SAPS

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.

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

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

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

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 practicesQuick Start Reference Deployment Guide

Single Node Architecture – SAP HANA

Scale out Architecture – SAP HANA

Enterprise Use Cases for SAP

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

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

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

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

SAP Architecture Patterns

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

Single Instance Architecture

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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 andstored for month

snapshot

Transport volume Snapshot

CI/DB

Region 1

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 S3Amazon Glacier

Backups are shipped to S3 every x hours for a month

Archived andstored for month

snapshot

APP APP

CI, DATABASE & APP Snapshot

Availability Zone B

APP

EBS

Volumes

EBS

Volumes

Replication

Region 1

DB S/BDB

ASCSEFS

Route53

ASCS AMI

App AMI

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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

Customer Case Studies

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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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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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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Resources

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SAP Notes

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