EBOOK:

Optimize Your
SAP Environment
by Migrating to AWS
Contents
Why Migrate SAP Workloads to AWS?  3

SAP HANA on AWS  5

The SAP Rapid Migration Test  6

Amazon EC2 X1 Instances  7

High Availability and Disaster Recovery  8

AWS Tools and Resources for SAP Migration  9

AWS Migration Services  9

AWS Quick Starts  10

AWS Partner Network  10

Featured Partners and Customer Case Studies  11

Mactores & UCT  12

Velocity & EIS  13

Resources and Getting Started  14

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Why Migrate SAP Workloads?
The notion of digitizing your business has become a matter of “when,” rather than “if.” For many,
migrating critical workloads to the cloud is a key part of this transformation. When deciding on a
cloud provider, however, IT executives are under pressure to find a solution that enables reduced
costs, greater agility, and above all, the ability to innovate core business processes.

At the heart of many businesses embarking on this journey is their SAP environment. But since
SAP workloads represent some of the most critical and deeply integrated business applications,
IT executives are required to look for ways to execute this migration in the most timely and
reliable manner. Organizations migrating to the cloud cannot risk application downtime or
productivity loss.

Running SAP applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables your business to be more
agile, cost-effective, and secure than running SAP on premises. The breadth and depth of AWS
services provides traditional and emerging technologies to help you better support your evolving
business needs and drive new value from SAP workloads. AWS provides tools and resources
to help you migrate to the cloud quickly and reliably, whether you are simply lifting and shifting
your existing environment, or migrating to SAP HANA. In addition, the AWS Partner Network
(APN) Partners provide tools and best practices to help you accelerate your SAP migration and
successfully and optimize manage SAP workloads on the AWS Cloud.

Most Complete Cloud for Business Innovation

AWS provides the broadest and deepest set of integrated services among cloud
providers, spanning traditional offerings, like compute and storage, and emerging
technologies, like IoT and machine learning. Access to these services reduces the
traditional barriers – risk, cost, and complexity – of integrating new technologies
with your SAP workloads. AWS constantly updates and expands their offerings
based on customer feedback, maintaining a pace of innovation to help you
continue driving new value from your SAP environment.

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Why migrate SAP workloads?

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership

AWS provides access to low-cost IT infrastructure that you can rapidly provision
and de-provision on-demand, while paying only for the resources you use. This,
combined with the removal of significant upfront investments and continual
hardware maintenance costs, helps you reduce your total cost of ownership of your
SAP environment.

“Migrating SAP to AWS has helped SEACO save more than 50 percent in IT
infrastructure and maintenance costs, while improving many of its core business
processes.” Carlos Galiano, CIO, Seaco Global Ltd.

Secure and Compliant Cloud Infrastructure

AWS is designed to help customers comply with a wide variety of regulatory and
industry specific requirements. Additionally, AWS provides dozens of assurance
programs that help you meet these requirements, assess whether you remain
continually compliant, and stay audit-ready. Native security services, as well as
third-party offerings available in AWS Marketplace help you further strengthen your
security posture.

“As an aerospace and defense firm, security is absolutely essential. That’s why
we chose AWS GovCloud. We then built the foundational and security blueprints
on top of it all.” Jeff Wright, Cloud Services Sr. Manager, Lockheed Martin

Certified and Supported for SAP

Since 2011, SAP and AWS have collaborated and SAP has certified AWS for
production deployments of SAP applications, platforms, and databases. In
addition, SAP has trusted AWS with its own workloads since 2008. Several leading
enterprises, including BP, Brooks Brothers, and GE Oil and Gas, are running
critical SAP workloads on AWS to increase business agility and reduce costs. This
experience gives new and existing SAP customers the ability to confidently deploy
mission-critical workloads on the AWS Cloud.

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SAP HANA on AWS
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that consolidates your data
needs, removing the burden of managing disparate systems and siloed
data. This enables you to minimize the complexity of your IT environment,
accelerate business processes, and reduce data management costs.
Upgrading to SAP HANA requires you to invest in new infrastructure
and many have found that the cloud is the best place to run these workloads, since it
allows you to get the most out of SAP HANA now and continually leverage cutting-edge
technologies to innovate business processes and drive greater efficiency. AWS provides
resources uch as AWS Quick Starts. The SAP HANA Quick Start helps you deploy fully
functional SAP HANA systems on the AWS Cloud, following best practices from AWS
and SAP. The Quick Start ensures that AWS services and the OS (SLES or RHEL) are
optimally configured to achieve the best performance for your SAP HANA system.

“
Using AWS SAP HANA Quick Start, we only needed to push a few buttons to get a
functioning SAP HANA solution.”

Phillip Miller,
Director of Infrastructure & Technical Engineering
Brooks Brothers, Inc.

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The SAP
Rapid Migration Test
The SAP Rapid Migration test (also knowns as FAST, which stands for
Fast AWS and SAP Transformation) is a set of processes, procedures,
and tools that help customers running SAP applications on anyDB
migrate to SAP HANA or SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) on AWS. FAST can
help to migrate to your SAP environment to AWS and upgrade to SAP HANA in record
time, using your own in-house resources, remote consulting, or a consulting partner.
SAP developed FAST in collaboration with AWS to enable quick, easy, and reliable cloud
migrations and SAP HANA upgrades.

Standard, supported, Results in as Costs as little

and proven tools fast as 48 hours as $1,000

Customers have experienced:

25% 50% 80%

reduction in reduction in estimated reduction in time
migration time project cost and cost of testing

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Amazon EC2 X1 Instances
AWS can support demanding SAP applications. Amazon Enterprise
Compute Cloud (EC2) X1 and X1e instances provide up to 4 TB of
RAM per instance to support memory-intensive applications, such
as SAP HANA with resiliency and scale. AWS and Intel have teamed
up to produce the Amazon EC2 X1 instance that is engineered to meet the strict
performance requirements for in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA. Compared
to other EC2 instances, X1 instances have the lowest price per GiB of RAM. X1
instances are certified by SAP to run production environments of the next-generation
Business Suite S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA,
and Data Mart Solutions on HANA.

“
Provision all required HANA
infrastructure in less than one hour,
compared to weeks or months
We always strive to get the best
possible performance out of our
Powered by four Intel® Xeon® E7 SAP environment, and we can
8880 v3 (Haswell) processors and
offers 128 vCPUs do that by using the Amazon
EC2 X1instance types.”

Certified for scale-out deployments Clint Bouska

of up to 7 nodes or 14 TB of RAM
(X1) and 32TB (X1e). Systems Architect Manager
Lockheed Martin

Up to 20 Gbps of
network bandwidth
”
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High Availability and
Disaster Recovery
As of 2017, the AWS Cloud operates in 44 Availability Zones within 16
geographic Regions around the world, with plans for expansion. The
AWS infrastructure footprint enables you to establish a global presence
and operate SAP applications with high availability, disaster-tolerance, and performance
around the world.

Amazon EC2 is designed for 99.95% availability. AWS Availability Zones offer you the
ability to operate production systems which are more highly available, fault tolerant
and scalable than would be possible from a single data center. Features of other AWS
services include elastic IP addresses and snapshots that can also be leveraged to enable
additional fault-tolerance and high availability.

The AWS global footprint combined with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon EC2 automatic recovery provides you with many
options for architecting a highly available and disaster-tolerant SAP environment on AWS.
SAP HANA also helps with this initiative with native functionality, such as HANA System
Replication (HSR) and HANA Backup/Restore. To learn more about high availability
and disaster recovery options for SAP HANA on AWS, read the SAP on Amazon Web
Services High Availability Guide.

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AWS Tools and Resources
for SAP Migration
AWS Migration Services
AWS provides a variety of migration services to help you move data and applications to
the AWS Cloud quickly and securely. Among them are the following, which can help you
start running SAP workloads on the AWS Cloud.

> AWS Application Discovery Service

This service makes it easy to perform application discovery and dependency

mapping at scale by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data
centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profile. AWS Application
Discovery Service helps systems integrators accelerate and reliably plan application
migration projects.

> AWS Snowball

This service provides a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances
to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud, while diffusing
challenges, including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns.

> AWS Direct Connect

Establish private connectivity between AWS and your on-premises environment, while
benefiting from reduced network costs, increased bandwidth throughput, and a more
consistent network experience, compared to internet-based connections.Access public
and private resources from the same connection, while maintaining network separation
between the public and private environments.

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> AWS Storage Gateway

This service provides hybrid cloud storage, enabling your on-premises applications
to seamlessly use AWS storage services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and
Amazon EBS.

> AWS VM Import/Export

Leverage your existing investments in virtual images, built to meet your IT security,
configuration management, and compliance requirements, by easily importing them from
your existing environment to Amazon EC2 instances. You can also export imported
instances back to your on-premises virtualization infrastructure, which allows you to deploy
workloads across your IT infrastructure.

AWS Quick Starts

AWS solutions architects and partners have built pre-configured reference deployments
to help you more easily implement popular solutions on AWS, in line with best practices
for security and high availability. AWS Quick Starts are available for SAP HANA and SAP
Business One for SAP HANA. For details, see https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/.

AWS Partner Network

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global partner program that includes thousands
of Consulting and Technology Partners who help customers architect, deploy, and
manage AWS environments successfully. SAP Competency Partners have demonstrated
technical proficiency and proven success in implementing, migrating, and managing SAP
workloads on the AWS Cloud.

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Featured SAP Migration Providers

Organizations looking to improve the speed and flexibility of their

If your enterprise is leveraging SAP in your on-premises data center,
SAP application deployments often look to the cloud, but don’t know
you’ve likely already considered migrating to the AWS Cloud to
where to begin with migrating their business-critical applications. For
increase business and cost efficiencies and to gain the business-
a seamless SAP application migration, organizations need to follow
critical reliability that the cloud provides. Accenture supports
an adoption framework that allows them to re-think their operational
enterprise-level organizations through an accelerated migration of
processes to incorporate automation and provide an optimal end-
their SAP portfolios to AWS. As an APN Premier Consulting Partner
user experience. To ensure a seamless migration, Mactores conducts
with the SAP Competency, Accenture has helped many enterprises
an in-depth analysis of business and technological aspects, helping
realize the benefits of running SAP on the AWS Cloud.
organizations define their enterprise-wide cloud strategy.

Migrating your critical SAP workloads to the AWS Cloud has proven Have you been holding off on migrating SAP applications to the
to enhance agility, reduce costs, and stimulate innovation. However, cloud? Many organizations are overcoming migration challenges by
for many, executing your migration quickly, reliably, and in line with leveraging high-value SAP production management services that
AWS and SAP best practices requires the help of an experienced enable them to maintain alignment between their applications and
system integrator. Capgemini’s Cloud Migration Services provide business processes. These organizations utilize the Velocity Cloud
a holistic approach to migrating your SAP workloads, guiding Application Management Platform (VCAMPTM) for SAP on AWS to
customers through migration analysis, planning, and execution, as optimize SAP applications management and leverage its automated
well as running SAP workloads on AWS. migration and advanced analytics capabilities to deliver continuous
improvement for their application lifecycle.

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Customer Success Story:
Ultra Clean Holdings (UCT)
The Challenge
In an effort to improve visibility across its business and simplify communication with its
supply chain, UCT looked to replace its existing ERP system with a more robust,
scalable solution.

The Solution
UCT decided to upgrade and deploy SAP S/4HANA on AWS. UCT partnered with
Mactores to perform a full-scale migration of its existing legacy system to the cloud. The
migration streamlined operations throughout UTC’s supply chain, yielding greater IT
agility, speed, and lower TCO.

UCT is a contract firm and a leader in designing, engineering, and manufacturing critical
subsystems and turnkey solutions for a variety of industries across the world. As UCT
expanded their operations, they needed a solution that could handle higher capacity,
reduce costs, and provide simpler management. Mactores helped UCT migrate their
SAP landscape to AWS, in turn enabling rapid scalability and reducing total cost of
ownership by 40%. Additionally, Mactores helped UCT standardize, simplify, and better
understand their operations environment.

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Customer Success Story:
EIS, Inc.
The Challenge
EIS had been running their applications on premises and were having difficulty finding
IT administrators with the skills to maintain it. As a result, the company decided to
modernize its IT infrastructure.

The Solution
EIS enlisted Velocity as their managed services provider to migrate their SAP workloads
to AWS. Their partnership has continued, with Velocity hosting and managing EIS’s SAP
applications on AWS.

EIS is a leading North American distributor of various process materials, production

supplies, and specialty parts and products for electrical OEM, motor repair, and
assembly companies. EIS evaluated cloud solutions in an effort to modernize their
on-premises infrastructure and SAP environment. As a result, they chose Velocity to
help migrate their SAP environment to AWS and provide managed services to help
them continually follow best practices for security and availability. Since migrating, EIS
is saving roughly 20% per year and experiencing dramatic performance improvements
over their prior system.

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Resources and Getting Started
For more information about migrating your
SAP workloads to AWS, visit:
> https://aws.amazon.com/sap/
> https://aws.amazon.com/sap/getting-started/
> https://aws.amazon.com/sap/faq/
> https://aws.amazon.com/partners/competencies/sap/
> https://aws.amazon.com/sap/case-studies/
> https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

About AWS
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and
broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers more than 90 fully featured services
for compute, storage, databases, analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), and
enterprise applications from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions in
the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers
around the world -- including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies -- to power their infrastructure, make them more agile,
and lower costs.

To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

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