When to migrate to the cloud? SAP on AWS

Every day, companies are advancing further on their journey towards digital transformation, and the cloud is one of the steps to take.

If you already have SAP and are considering migrating to the cloud, this blog is for you.

At Xamai, we are Amazon Web Services Associate Architects, but what is Amazon Web Services (AWS)? It is a set of public cloud computing services such as data storage, backups, database migrations, website and application hosting, e-commerce, etc. And through AWS, you can get SAP in the cloud.

But why migrate to the cloud if you already have SAP on-premise? If you don't want to renew your servers due to the cost it involves, but you need them to continue running SAP due to infrastructure deficiencies and want flexibility in your environments, such as using more or fewer resources, it's time to migrate to SAP on AWS.

Amazon Web Services is the first public cloud (or on-demand) platform certified by SAP to run SAP workloads. AWS and SAP have collaborated to certify the AWS platform, which offers the widest selection and the largest memory size in the SAP infrastructure as an IAAS service for SAP HANA (SAP's database).

With AWS, you can get the infrastructure needed to run a scalable HANA system of up to 34 Terabytes in less than 1 hour compared to the weeks or months of implementation in other infrastructure options, such as on premise, in addition to AWS having the largest single-instance scale of all cloud platforms, which is 4 Terabytes.

Many wonder if AWS offers a powerful enough solution to run a particular combination of SAP applications, the answer is yes, Amazon EC2 X1 instances are designed for large-scale memory applications in the cloud. X1 instances offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance currently available, with high performance, resilience, security, and flexibility.

But to make a decision, you first need to know more specifically the benefits of the cloud.

• Cost savings

  • On-premises requires physical space, cabling, servers, power, networks, certification, storage. While with AWS you can start with $0.
  • AWS has continuously lower prices for massive economies of scale; the more you pay, the more you save.
  • With AWS, you only pay for what you use, the infrastructure can expand or contract with demand. You use energy while reducing costs, in the place where you predict computer usage before buying it, with AWS you use what you need, when you need it.

• Elasticity

  It is the ability to scale for more or fewer resources easily, paying only for the resources used. With the elasticity of SAP on AWS, you can achieve the following:

  • Deploy new applications quickly
  • Scale instantly as workload increases
  • Easily deprovision resources that are no longer needed
  • Reduce resources without paying for infrastructure

• Flexibility

  Refers to the ability of SAP on AWS to adapt to the customer's needs, achieving:

  • Develop web, mobile, and social applications
  • Support internal enterprise applications
  • Process large volumes of data
  • Obtain high-performance computing with disaster recovery, backups, or archiving enterprise data

• Security

  AWS has more security built in than many customers in their own data centers

  • AWS's #1 priority includes physical security, platform security, and network security
  • There is greater visibility of infrastructure status in the cloud
  • The best security solutions and certifications are implemented in each layer of the architecture, with a familiar security focus while providing on-demand infrastructure and isolating the security of each customer

Now that you know what SAP on AWS is and what its benefits are, Are you ready to migrate to the cloud?

If you want more information about SAP on AWS, send us an email to atención.xamai@scanda.com.mx