Category: Management Tools

SAP’s rapid adoption of RISE with SAP and SAP BTP has led to managing over 7,000 AWS accounts across 33 regions. To address this scale, SAP developed a “Secure by Default” framework, leveraging AWS services like HAQM GuardDuty, S3, and Lambda for comprehensive security monitoring and automated remediation. This automated, scalable approach ensures a strong security posture across SAP’s extensive cloud footprint, allowing customers to focus on their core business with confidence in their AWS-hosted environments.

Introduction In the second part of our blog series, we will share more details on each of the key capabilities of HAQM CloudWatch Application Insights, to aid in using the insights gained, to catch trends in your system, understand the overall health of your SAP landscape, and react accordingly, to maximize your business continuity. The […]

Introduction One reason thousands of customers choose AWS to run their mission-critical SAP workloads is to improve reliability and business resilience. In fact, a 2023 IDC report found that customers who run S/4HANA on AWS experience 58% less unplanned downtime vs. on-premises. Increasingly, SAP customers are choosing RISE with SAP on AWS to support their […]

Enterprises who rely on SAP systems for business-critical processes have stringent availability and performance requirements making observability strategy an important part of operational efficiency. Organizations with large SAP estate(s) running solutions such as SAP HANA, Suite on HANA, or SAP S/4HANA have multiple observability options for these environments. Solutions like SAP Solution Manager, HAQM CloudWatch […]

Innovation and agility are key to staying ahead in the digital landscape, and thus businesses are increasingly looking to leverage the power of cloud services. However, a significant hurdle that many organizations face is the risk associated with transmitting sensitive data over the public internet. Recognizing this challenge, our focus in this blog is to […]

Background Customers are always looking to improve their operational excellence and resiliency of their core business processes in SAP systems. To achieve this, they need a consolidated monitoring/observability dashboard for their SAP landscape, so they can correlate issues, and understand whether they are in the database, application server, presentation, or network layers, (including Internet connectivity) […]

  AWS Launch Wizard for SAP allows customers to automate the deployment of SAP applications such as SAP S/4HANA. It also provides customers the ability to personalize their SAP systems with the help of pre/post configuration scripts. Pre-deployment configuration scripts run right after the instances are launched and baseline Launch Wizard configuration activities – such […]

Introduction HAQM CloudWatch Application Insights helps you monitor your applications that use HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances along with other underlying AWS resources. It identifies and sets up key metrics, logs, and alarms across your application resources and technology stack by continuously monitoring metrics and logs to detect and correlate anomalies and errors. When […]

Introduction SAP offers multiple products with different licensing options for customers. An example is SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOBJ) which supports Concurrent Sessions (CS) / Concurrent Access License (CAL), Named User (NU) and CPU License types. Understanding the different license options available is important for customers to optimize their costs when running in AWS. When customers […]

Introduction SAP applications support critical business processes and therefore, customers require a comprehensive view of their SAP applications’ health and actionable insights to maintain the highest levels of security, availability, and performance. Since 2019, HAQM Web Services customers have been using HAQM CloudWatch Application Insights to monitor applications like Microsoft SQL Server databases and .NET-based […]