Choosing a hyperscaler for your SAP landscape is like choosing a business partner, a decision that will have a significant impact on the future growth of your business. With many cloud providers that offer many perks like global scale, expertise and innovation.
To choose the right hyperscaler for your business, there are a few points you must consider like, financial aspects, technical and business support, security and level of customization. Most importantly it must be constantly creating new data centres and evolving to meet the growing requirements of a business.
Why AWS is the perfect cloud solution for the SAP landscape?
AWS offers a unique combination of choice, agility, security, elasticity and scalability. A Forrester Research study found that migrating SAP ECC to AWS EC2 can result in up to 103% ROI in 3 years, $1.5M savings in avoided data centre costs in addition to up to 500% performance improvements among other benefits.
“During high-demand periods, certain recurring orders could take hours to generate when SAP was on-premises. The same orders are generated in 30 to 45 minutes in AWS.” IT director and enterprise architect, consumer goods
Amazon is already the favourite cloud choice for more than 5000 SAP customers, and it is trusted by global leaders and innovative startups in empowering various workloads that include data processing and warehousing, storage, and archiving.
Altivate’s Top 6 Reasons Why you Should Run SAP on AWS?
There are many reasons that make AWS the perfect cloud solutions choice for SAP services, we will take you on a deep dive discussing Altivate’s top 6 reasons:
- Security – AWS automates routine security checks
- Performance – AWS provides reliable cloud infrastructure
- Proven Cost Savings
- Scalability
- Analytics – Uncover Deep insights within your data
- Variety of Services and Features
1. Security – AWS automates routine security checks
AWS security surpasses the security capabilities of any on-site data centre with its layered security controls and automated systems continuously monitoring, validating, and testing the environment’s defences.
It has a deep set of cloud security tools, 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. It supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, and all 117 AWS services that store customer data offer the ability to encrypt that data. AWS is designed to fulfil the security conditions for the military, banks, and any global high-sensitivity organizations.
The Amazon Partner Network (APN) also includes companies that offer a wide range of security services. These services are built to complement and extend the protections present in the core AWS environment. In addition to other tools, like AWS Direct Connect to secure data communications and AWS Identity. Moreover, there is also access Management (IAM) to limit data access to only authorized users.
2. Performance – AWS provides reliable cloud infrastructure
AWS has developed a variety of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances optimized for specific workload needs. SAP has certified X1 instances to run Business Warehouse on HANA (BW/4HANA), data mart solutions on HANA, Business Suite on HANA, and the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA in production environments on the AWS Cloud.
In addition, it also manages, patches, secures, and upgrades companies’ IT infrastructure. Therefore, it enables the tech team to refocus their time and resources on more strategic needs.
3. Proven Cost Savings
Organizations are able to supercharge their performance while simultaneously cutting their costs by moving their SAP instances to AWS. As a result, companies see an instant reduction in their IT costs, hosting expenses and operational expenses of running data centres on-premise.
4. Scalability
AWS has a wide variety of compute and storage services certified for SAP applications and SAP HANA workloads. Running SAP software on AWS cloud can rapidly scale up and scale down compute storage, and networking infrastructure. This is to match fluctuating loads and service level requirements or respond to other factors.
5. Analytics – Uncover Deep insights within your data
AWS enables businesses to combine SAP data with non-SAP data and apply analytics within an enterprise data lake. It also adds intelligence to SAP applications with the broadest and most profound machine learning services.
Migrating SAP workloads to AWS helps in the reduction of Amazon S3 costs and save up to an additional 70% with Amazon S3 intelligent tiering.
6. Variety of Services and Features
AWS has significantly more services and more features within those services than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and IoT. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost-effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
The list goes on of why we believe you should consider AWS for your SAP systems, so if you want to find out more and explore how to take the next step and leverage the AWS, book a free consultation with one of Altivate’s consultants.
