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SAP on AWS

SAP transformation on AWS

Run SAP on AWS with one team across application and cloud

SAP on AWS is a focused capability within Altivate's wider AWS practice. We align SAP architecture, migration, operations, resilience, cost, data, and AI so infrastructure decisions support the transformation roadmap.

AWS service focus

Plan, migrate, operate, and improve SAP workloads on AWS with integrated SAP and cloud expertise.

Capabilities

What Altivate delivers

01

SAP on AWS strategy

Assess S/4HANA, RISE with SAP, HANA, NetWeaver, BusinessObjects, interfaces, data, and non-SAP dependencies as one landscape.

02

Architecture and landing zone

Design AWS accounts, network, identity, encryption, monitoring, shared services, sizing, availability, and SAP support boundaries.

03

Migration and conversion

Coordinate infrastructure migration with SAP upgrade, system copy, database migration, S/4HANA conversion, testing, cutover, and rollback.

04

RISE with SAP integration

Design the AWS and enterprise services around RISE, including connectivity, identity, integration, data, monitoring, security, and operating ownership.

05

Backup, HA, and disaster recovery

Engineer and test SAP recovery objectives using supported AWS and SAP patterns, Amazon S3, AWS Backup, and SAP HANA capabilities.

06

SAP data and AI on AWS

Connect governed SAP data and processes to AWS analytics, machine learning, and generative AI while preserving business controls.

Delivery path

A controlled path from decision to value

1

Discover

Map the SAP landscape, business calendar, integrations, data, ownership, risk, and transformation roadmap.

2

Design

Agree target architecture, sizing, availability, security, support model, cost, and migration path.

3

Transition

Build, rehearse, migrate, validate, cut over, and stabilize with SAP and AWS workstreams synchronized.

4

Improve

Optimize performance, resilience, automation, cost, data access, and operations after go-live.

Business outcomes

What changes when the platform works

Architecture earns its place by improving measurable business and operating outcomes.

One accountable plan

SAP, infrastructure, data, security, and operations move through a synchronized roadmap.

Lower migration risk

Landscape dependencies, testing, business cutover, recovery, and rollback are handled together.

Better run economics

Sizing, commitments, storage, backup, licensing, automation, and FinOps are reviewed as a system.

More value from data

SAP information can serve analytics and AI without bypassing authorization, reconciliation, or ownership.

Altivate point of view

Gulf Medical reduced infrastructure cost by about 40%

Altivate helped Gulf Medical move SAP workloads to AWS and improve the economics of its infrastructure. The published customer story details the migration and business impact.

Read the Gulf Medical story

Frequently asked

SAP on AWS questions

Can SAP HANA run on AWS?

Yes. AWS provides SAP-certified EC2 instances and supported patterns for SAP HANA, S/4HANA, NetWeaver, and related workloads. Sizing and architecture must follow current SAP and AWS guidance.

Can Altivate support RISE with SAP on AWS?

Yes. We help shape the responsibilities and surrounding architecture for connectivity, identity, integration, data, security, monitoring, and the wider enterprise landscape.

How do SAP and AWS teams avoid hand-off gaps?

We use one integrated architecture, dependency map, test plan, cutover plan, support model, and decision log across application, infrastructure, security, data, and operations.

Next step

Plan SAP on AWS as one transformation

Bring the landscape, business timeline, and cloud questions. Altivate will connect the SAP and AWS decisions into one executable path.

Discuss SAP on AWS

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