This document discusses running SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It outlines the key benefits of AWS for SAP including cost savings up to 71% compared to traditional infrastructure, speed and agility in deploying infrastructure within hours versus weeks or months, scalability to increase resources as needed without overprovisioning, high availability through automatic recovery and replication across availability zones and regions, and managed services options. The document provides an example pricing estimate for an SAP S/4HANA landscape on AWS and diagrams illustrating SAP S/4HANA high availability and disaster recovery architectures on AWS.

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Bill Timm
AWS Solutions Architect
May 17th 2016
SAP S/4HANA on AWS

2. What is Amazon Web Services?
A secure cloud services platform,
comprised of more than 70 services, that
enables customers to run virtually any
application: from enterprise applications
like SAP to social games and mobile apps
AWS Global Infrastructure
Compute Storage Database
Network
Application Services
Deployment & Administration

3. AWS Global Infrastructure
12 Regions
33 Availability Zones
54 Edge Locations
5 more Regions
coming online
throughout the year

4. AWS Services for SAP S/4HANA
On-demand resizable compute capacity in
the cloud
40+ different VM configurations, 20+ are
benchmarked and certified for SAP
solutions
Windows, SUSE Linux, and Red Hat Linux
operating systems
Secure, durable and highly-scalable,
object/file storage in the cloud
Low cost backup storage for your SAP
systems
Only pay for what you need, with no
minimum commitments or up-front fees
A logically isolated section of the AWS
cloud where you can launch AWS
resources in a virtual network that you
define.
VPN connection provides secure
connectivity between your VPC and on-
premises systems and users
Persistent block level storage volumes for
use with Amazon EC2 instances
EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-
latency performance needed to run
workloads like SAP S/4HANA
Amazon
Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Compute NetworkStorage

5. AWS SAP Alliance
SAP has been an AWS customer
since 2008
AWS has been an SAP Global
Technology Partner since early 2011
AWS infrastructure is SAP certified
and supported for production
SAP Customers
SAP Partners

6. Key Benefits for SAP S/4HANA

7. Cost Savings
Benefit from AWS’s economies of
scale and operational efficiencies which
translate into lower cost for customers
Multiple purchasing options allow you
to optimize your cost
Trade capital expense for variable
expense. Pay for infrastructure as you
consume it
“Up to 71% savings on the sum of all
TCO elements, AWS has an impact on”
Source: VMS AG – SAP on AWS TCO study
VMS AG – SAP on AWS TCO Study

8. Speed and Agility
15 30 90
EC2
Instance
Physical
Appliance
Days
EC2
Instance
1 60
POC – 1.5 months
New Implementation to Production
Long-term Commitment
Provision compute, storage and
network infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA
in hours vs. weeks or months with
traditional infrastructure
Provision temporary infrastructure for
SAP S/4HANA POCs, migration tests,
etc.

9. Scalability
256 GB
512 GB
1 TB
2 TB
Project
Start
12 months 24 months
EC2
Instance
Physical
Appliance
Time
EC2
Instance
EC2
Instance
Memory
36 months
Estimating SAP S/4HANA initial and
future memory requirements accurately
can be challenging
Infrastructure can be sized based on
actual requirements and then increased as
requirements increase
Infrastructure is oversized sized leading to
higher cost for underutilized infrastructure
The Problem
AWS Infrastructure
Traditional Infrastructure

10. Availability
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery can
automatically recover an impaired
instance due to an underlying hardware
failure
Synchronously replicate to a second
Availability Zone to achieve a higher
level of availability than would be possible
in a single data center
Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to
replicate backups to another AWS region

11. SAP S/4HANA on AWS Pricing
Production
HANA System
Production
NetWeaver AS System
Monthly Estimate
Instance type vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
Instance type vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
On-Demand
Reserved Instance
1 Yr No Upfront
Reserved Instance
3 Yr Partial Upfront
r3.8xlarge 32 244 Collocated on HANA system $6,683 $4,408 $2,952*
r3.8xlarge 32 244 r3.xlarge 4 30.5 $7,579 $4,892 $3,244*
x1.32xlarge 128 1,952 Collocated on HANA system Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon
x1.32xlarge 128 1,952 r3.2xlarge 8 61.0 Coming soon Coming soon Coming soon
Sample AWS infrastructure pricing for…
• SAP S/4HANA landscape - PRD / QAS / DEV
• SAP SolMan system
• Primary and Backup storage
• Virtual Private Cloud with VPN connection
• AWS Business Support Plan
*This is the average monthly payment over the course of the Reserved Instance term.
See additional SAP S/4HANA pricing at - http://aws.amazon.com/sap/solutions/s4hana/

12. Managed Services for SAP on AWS
SAP Hosting Services
 SAP BASIS Administration
 SAP Installation/Operation
 SAP Upgrades/Patching
 SAP Monitoring
Infrastructure Services
 OS Admin/Patching
 Backup & Recovery
 Network & Security
 Monitoring
Infrastructure
 Facilities
 Servers
 Storage
 Network
Managed Service by: AWS Partner
Managed by: AWS
Self-managed by: Customer
or

13. Partner with AWS
Customer 1
Sell &
Implement
Deploy &
Host
Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4

14. SAP S/4HANA on AWS
Region BAmazon S3
EC2
Instance
HANA
DR
Region A
- EC2 Auto Recovery
- HANA System Replication
- HANA Database backup
1
3
2
- S3 Cross-Region Replication
- HANA Database restore
4
5
5
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
Amazon
CloudWatch
Amazon S3
EC2
Instance
EBS
volumes
S/4HANA
HA
EC2
Instance
EBS
volumes
S/4HANA
DEV
EC2
Instance
EBS
volumes
S/4HANA
QAS
EC2
Instance
EBS
volumes
S/4HANA
PRD
1
2
3
Virtual Private Cloud
4
Customer Network
Users
Systems
VPN

15. Additional information
http://aws.amazon.com/sap
 Whitepapers & Guides
 SAP Notes
 Support Information
 AWS SAP Partners

16. Thank you!
Bill Timm
btimm@amazon.com