In this presentation, learn how AWS works with SAP to certify non-production and production workloads, best practices for sizing and deploying SAP Business Warehouse on AWS, pricing, and how to get started.

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Carl Bachor, Jr. – AWS SAP Professional
Services
May 19th 2016
Running SAP Business Warehouse on the AWS Cloud
aws.amazon.com/SAP
bachorc@amazon.com

2. SAP BW on AWS
Unprecedented
Flexibility for HA/DR
Scale to meet
actual demand
Improve operational
reliabilityDeploy in minutes vs.
week/months
End to End
Automated SAP
Deployments
Focus on your core
competency
Integrate SAP
workloads into your
broader cloud strategy
Flexible Pricing
Models

3. Overview:
• SAP on AWS Partnership & Certification
• AWS Deployment Strategy
• Sizing & Scale of SAP Systems On AWS
• SAP BW on AWS Architecture Options
• Getting Started

4. SAP on AWS
Partnership &
Certification

5. AWS / SAP Alliance
SAP has been an AWS customer
since 2008
AWS has been an SAP Global Technology
Partner since early 2011
AWS has worked closely with SAP to certify SAP
solutions for production deployment on AWS

6. SAP & AWS – Many FirstsCustomerAdoption
2008
SAP as a Customer
S/4 HANA
SAP IQ / ASE
SAP HANA Platform Edition
SAP Afaria
SAP Business Suite
HANA One
HANA Developer Edition
SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)
A1 / B1
RDS Solutions
BOBJ
SAP HANA for B1
BW on HANA
BW on HANA (4TB)
Today
X1 – 2TB (In Memory)
SAP HANA Production Certified

7. SAP Solutions on AWS
Databases
SAP HANA Editions
SAP MaxDB Database (7.8+)
SAP ASE (15.7.0.051+)
IBM DB2 (9.7+)
Microsoft SQL Server (‘08 R2+)
SAP Business
Applications
S/4HANA
SAP Business Suite*
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Business All-In One
SAP Business One
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP Database & Mobile Solutions
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise
SAP IQ
SAP Replication Server
SAP Mobile Secure
SAP Mobile Platform
*SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP PLM, and SAP SRM applications, and apps based on Java or ABAP

8. AWS Deployment
Strategy

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

10. Availability
Zone A
Availability
Zone B
Availability
Zone C
Sample Region
Multi-AZ Concept for High Availability

11. Sizing & Scale

12. Memory Optimized
Name vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
Network
Bandwidth
SAPS
r3.8xlarge* 32 244 10 Gigabit 31,920
r3.4xlarge 16 122 High 15,960
r3.2xlarge 8 61 High 7,980
r3.xlarge 4 30.5 Moderate 3,990
r3.large 2 15 Moderate 1,995
Wide Selection of SAP Supported Instances
 Use in 2-tier and 3-tier configurations up to hundreds of thousands of SAPS
 *Certified instances for SAP HANA
 Amazon EBS-optimized instances
 Enhanced networking (SR-IOV)
Check SAP Note 1656099 for more information
General Purpose
Name vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
Network
Bandwidth
SAPS
m4.10xlarge 40 160 10 Gigabit 47,320
m4.4xlarge 16 64 High 17,712
m4.2xlarge 8 32 High 8,856
m4.xlarge 4 16 High 4,428
m4.large 2 8 Moderate 2,214
Compute Optimized
Name vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
Network
Bandwidth
SAPS
c4.8xlarge 36 60 10 Gigabit 37,950
c4.4xlarge 16 30 High 19,030
c4.2xlarge 8 15 High 9,515
c4.xlarge 4 7.5 High 4,758
c4.large 2 3.75 Moderate 2,379
HANA Optimized
Name vCPU
Memory
(GiB)
Network
Bandwidth
SAPS
x1.32xlarge* 128 1952 10 Gigabit 131,500

13. SAP Certified EC2 Instance Types
SAPS vs. RAM (GiB)
r3
r3
r3
r3
r3
c3
c3
c3
c3
c3
c4
c4
c4
c4
m4
m4
m4
m4
m4
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
0 50 100 150 200 250
10 Gbps Networking
SAPS
RAM (GiB)
X1

14. SAP Sizing on AWS
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Traditional AWS Demand
Data Center
Capacity
AWS
Usage
Business
Demand
 CPU, memory,
IO performance
On Demand
 CPU, memory,
IO performance
at current prices

15. SAP BW on AWS
Architecture Options

16. SAP HANA (Scale Out vs. Scale Up)
Scale Out
• R3.8xlarge – 244GB (1) to 4.1TB (17)
• X1 – TBD (Certification Coming Soon)
Scale Up
• R3.8xlarge – 244GB (1)
• X1 – 2TB (1)
Master
Worker Worker
Single Node

17. SAP HANA DB
SAP HANA Architecture (Scale Out)
AWS Cloud
Region
Availability Zone
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Master Node
SAP HANA Worker Node(s)
SAP Application Layer
• SAP HANA on AWS
• Scale Out SAP HANA Database Layer
• EC2 Instances
• 1 Master Node / ~ Worker
Nodes(s)
• Scale As Needed
• Add Worker Nodes As Required

18. SAP HANA Architecture (Scale Up)
AWS Cloud
Region
Availability Zone
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Node
SAP Application Layer
• SAP HANA on AWS
• Scale Up SAP HANA Database Layer
• EC2 Instances
• 1 Nodes
• Resize (EC2 Refresh) As Needed

19. AWS SAP BW Architecture (Solution Hybrid)
Corporate NetworkAWS Cloud
Region
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
SAP BW HANA
Application Tier
SAP BW HANA
Dbase Tier
Application Scaling
Application Scaling
SBX / DEV / TST / QA / PRD
SBX / DEV / TST / QA / PRD
ECC
SCM
GTS
SAP GUI /
PresentationDirect Connect / VPN

20. AWS SAP BW Architecture (Landscape / Environment)
Corporate Network
AWS Cloud
Region
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
SAP Application Tier
Instance Scaling
Instance Scaling
SBX / DEV / TST / QA / PRD
SAP GUI /
Presentation
Direct Connect / VPN
SAP Dbase Tier
Real-time
Replication

21. Getting Started

22. Getting Started
SAP on AWS Information:
https://aws.amazon.com/sap/
AWS Quick Start Release Features:
http://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/
SAP HANA Quick Start Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/sap-hana/
Other SAP HANA on AWS resources:
http://aws.amazon.com/sap/solutions/saphana/

23. Thank You!