Getting Started with Edge Integration Cell on AWS: A Setup Guide Using SAP Integration Suite

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What is Edge Integration Cell?

Edge Integration Cell (EIC), part of the SAP Integration Suite, brings a powerful hybrid integration runtime that bridges the gap between the cloud and your private landscape. It provides the flexibility to seamlessly manage APIs and run integration scenarios within a controlled environment, combining the best of both worlds.

With its hybrid deployment model, EIC makes it easy to design and monitor integration content in the cloud, while still allowing it to be securely deployed and run in a customer managed private environment.

 

Use cases and Advantages of EIC

• Security or compliance use cases: Sensitive data stays safely within an enterprise's firewall, following strict rules to keep it within a private environment.
• Migration path for SAP Process Integration customers: EIC helps customers design and monitor integration content in the cloud, while keeping deployment and execution fully within their private environments.

This blog offers a step-by-step guide to deploying Edge Integration Cell on AWS, with two setup options: a quick setup for trying out the simplest setup and a high-availability configuration for production. Whether you're looking for a quick test or a scalable, production-ready deployment, this guide makes it easy to configure SAP BTP and AWS resources. Once the setup is complete, the SAP Integration Suite can deploy integration flows securely to on-premise setup using EIC. 

 

Architecture

Both the quick setup and the high availability (HA) setup architecture for deploying EIC on AWS utilize Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The quick setup uses the default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the region, with all storage handled by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and smaller compute and storage resources for a simple and efficient deployment. In contrast, the HA architecture is spread across at least three availability zones for redundancy, with dynamic storage managed by a combination of EBS and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), along with additional services like Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for persistence and Redis for caching.

On the SAP BTP side, the Edge Integration Cell must be activated within the SAP Integration Suite. Once the EIC is configured and successfully deployed on the AWS EKS cluster, integration flows can be designed and seamlessly deployed to the new EIC runtime, combining the powerful integration capabilities of SAP Integration Suite with the customer managed resources on AWS.

 

Edge Integration Cell setup overview on SAP BTP and AWS

Here is an outline of the steps involved in setting up and deploying Edge Integration Cell from SAP BTP environment to AWS.

Setup on AWS:

 

Setup on SAP BTP: 

You can find the detailed setup instructions in the following GitHub repository – Deploy SAP Integration Suite - Edge Integration Cell on Amazon Web Services.

 

Additional resources

Here are some helpful resources related to Edge Integration Cell:

• What is Edge Integration Cell | SAP Help
• Deploy Edge Integration Cell on Microsoft Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service
• Deploy Edge Integration Cell on a custom server using SUSE Rancher
• FAQ on Edge Integration Cell
• SAP Integration Suite | SAP Help

 

Conclusion

I hope this blog has helped you set up Edge Integration Cell on AWS, making it easier to connect SAP on-premise solutions with the flexibility to design and monitor integrations in the cloud. By following these steps, you can build secure, high-performing business applications that blend innovation with control in a safe environment.

I want to express my gratitude to our SAP team members, Weikun Liu, Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy, Dante Alipio Jr., and Sivakumar N for their valuable contributions, guidance, and support. If you have any questions, feel free to contact paa@sap.com.