AWS Backup

Automate your backups with AWS Backint agent for SAP HANA: Is an SAP-certified backup and restore solution for SAP HANA workloads running on Amazon EC2 instances. AWS Backint Agent backs up your SAP HANA database to Amazon S3 and restores it using SAP management tools, such as SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP HANA Studio, or SQL commands. AWS Backint Agent supports full, incremental, differential, and log backup of SAP HANA databases and catalogs to Amazon S3. There is no cost to use AWS Backint Agent. You only pay for the underlying AWS services you use. AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA is available in all commercial regions.

Benefits:

• Secure: AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA supports server-side encryption of backups and validates Amazon S3 bucket ownership before backup and restore to and from Amazon S3.

• Speed: AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA is optimized to utilize the maximum Elastic Block Storage (EBS) throughput and network bandwidth available to Amazon S3 from your EC2 instance.

• Reliability: AWS Backint Agent integrates with SAP HANA Backint API, which has built-in validations to provide reliable backup and restore capabilities.

• Simplicity: AWS Backint Agent directly backs up your SAP HANA database to Amazon S3. This prevents the need to create custom scripts to manually copy your SAP HANA backup files to and from S3.

• Lower Recovery Point Objective (RPO): AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA can automatically backup your SAP HANA database log files to Amazon S3 at regular intervals to meet your RPO requirements.

Four scenarios to migrate SAP to AWS

1. Lift and Shift
Customers can move their SAP landscapes to the cloud without making changes to the database or application layer. This is a typically use case, it’s a reliable approach and great starting point.

2. Refactor for HANA
Customers can move SAP applications to SAP HANA on AWS, replacing Oracle, MS SQL, or another databases, but without going all the way to S/4HANA

3. S/4HANA transformation
When customers move from SAP ECC or another ERP application to S/4HANA, SAP’s ERP suite purpose-built for SAP HANA to realize digital transformation aspirations.

4. Beyond Infrastructure
In beyond infrastructure, customer can adopt new business capabilities to drive innovation and create new value from SAP.

SAP refresh hardware

SAP customers refresh their hardware every three to five years. With millions of transactions processed a day, systems and databases slow down as they grow. Customers need new servers, storage, and networking equipment to meet the demand.

It is essential to understand where a customer is on their SAP roadmap and when the next hardware refresh is possible. Rather than spending that money to refresh hardware, you have the opportunity to position a move to AWS.