AWS Innovate: Running SAP Solutions on AWS Cloud- Shailesh Albuquerque
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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.
AWS Innovate: Running SAP Solutions on AWS Cloud- Shailesh Albuquerque
- 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/
- 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
- 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
- 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, ” “
- 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 ” “
- 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 ” “
- 35. Resources http://aws.amazon.com/sap Whitepapers & Guides SAP Notes Support Information AWS SAP Partners
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