Category: Technical How-to

Introduction Customers have been running SAP workloads on AWS since 2008 and many of these SAP customers have been developing and enhancing their SAP business process using ABAP for much longer. Many customers’ business processes rely on custom ABAP code, and have teams of ABAP developers in-house or through their partners. However, innovating with AWS […]

Introduction The software development and operations industry has been modernizing and increasingly, applying DevOps as the standard approach to its processes. However, SAP installation and operations still tend to be very much manually driven. To help evolve this to an automated approach, we’ve demonstrated in our first blog post how to provision the infrastructure for […]

Introduction For SAP Java applications such as SAP Enterprise Portal (EP), customers use SAP Web dispatcher as an entry point of their HTTP(s) requests. SAP Web dispatcher receives the requests  coming from internet or intranet and distributes the requests among the application servers. For internet-based HTTP(s) requests, SAP Web dispatcher needs to be accessible to […]

Introduction Password rotation is a commonly accepted security best practice. In fact, password rotation is enforced in many organizations to reduce the risk of password-based attacks or exploits. Password policies encourage users to use strong passwords by enforcing a set of rules like password length and use of special characters. However, manually rotating passwords under […]

Introduction Over the years, enterprises have enjoyed the power of in-memory SAP HANA databases to help with the performance of critical business processes. However, as their usage and data footprint increase, one operational challenge is the startup time required for data to be loaded into memory following an application restart. This requirement results in longer […]

Authors: Krishnakumar Ramadoss, Rozal Singh, Manoj Muthukrishnan, Ram Borhade, Rajendra  Narikimelli, Damian Maldonado, Ganesh Suryanarayanan Introduction 5,000+  customers are running their SAP workloads on AWS. Besides saving costs, customers are reaping significant benefits from the depth and breadth of AWS services. Tens of thousands of data lakes are already deployed on AWS. Customers are benefiting […]

Introduction Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed service that enables customers to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and enterprise applications, including SAP, Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services, including Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. Often, customers first move their SAP workloads onto AWS to reduce costs, improve […]

Introduction This blog describes the most common issues that customers are experiencing in on-premises SAP Commerce deployments. It gives a concrete way to achieve blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to have faster and more secure implementations of SAP Commerce applications. The deployment procedure is based on what is described in the SAP official […]

Introduction SAP customers are accelerating innovation and reforming business process by using AWS services. Customers such as Zalando, Invista and Bizzy have modernised their SAP landscape and streamlined operations by integrating SAP with AWS technologies. SAP’s RISE with SAP solution provides consumption credits for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), which customers can use for […]

Introduction SAP Fiori is the user interface component of modern SAP applications such as S/4HANA, which enables business users to execute their business critical processes within SAP. It is based on SAP’s own HTML5 implementation called SAPUI5 and relies on the HTTPs protocol and modern web browsers as the client. As you are operating SAP […]