SAP BTP is a unified, business-centric, and open platform for the entire SAP ecosystem. As a PaaS solution, Networking, Storage, Servers, Virtualisation, O/S, Middleware, Runtime is managed by SAP. BTP is built on top of enterprise-level runtime framework such as Cloud Foundry, and Kyma, consuming hyperscaler-managed (AWS, Azure, GCP) native services (managed database services, managed message queue services, etc). BTP follows Cloud Native Concepts, that developers build components compatible with a particular abstraction layer and don’t have to worry about all underlying specifics that can be very heterogeneous.
In this section, we mainly focus on the dominant BTP runtime environment Cloud Foundry, and talk about the business continuity around it.
BTP is running on trustworthy infrastructure, and consumes hyperscaler-managed native database services, managed message queue services, etc. Endusers will designate which hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP) the BTP services will be running on when creating sub-accounts. Here is a portfolio of Regions and Service Portfolio and regions available (with corresponding underlying hyperscaler and region) for Cloud Foundry Environme... .
Below are some examples of hyperscaler native services (with business continuity guaranteed by hyperscaler) been consumed when building BTP.
PostgresSQL |
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Redis | |
Object Store |
BTP Cloud Foundry environment inherits the High Availability mechanism of Cloud Foundry framework. In addition, SAP applies resilience principles when developing, updating, and deploying our SAP BTP applications and .... Moreover, SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment has built-in mechanisms (auto-scaling, auto-failover, etc.) to ensure business continuity, and follows these recommendations to support high availability at the platform and application level.
BTP provides different level of service plans for end users to choose: Free, Standard, Premium.
With hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, and GCP) DNS service, it is possible to build additional cross-region DR failover. The hyperscaler DNS service is doing BTP service health check, and service failover in case disaster happened in the primary region instance. Here is an tutorial. Below is a summary of verified hyperscaler DNS services.
AWS Route 53 |
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Azure Traffic Manager |
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It is possible to use hyperscaler object store to backup and make it regional redundant.
Below we list out some examples of SAP BTP solutions that endusers can do object export:
SAP Cloud Integration | Exporting Integration Packages |
SAP Datasphere | Using Datasphere CLI to export objects |
Then by storing the object export into hyperscaler object store, and make it zonal redundant or regional redundant.
BTP with Azure |
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BTP with AWS |
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BTP with GCP |
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IaC tool like Terraform can be used for setting BTP environments (for instance, sub accounts, directories, roles, service entitlements, etc.).
For application code change, CI/CD pipeline is recommended to automate and govern change management. This is especially necessary when doing side-by-side extensibility to keep the core clean. Below is a summary of available CI/CD pipeline services:
SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery (on SAP BTP) | |
Azure DevOps | |
AWS CodePipeline |
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Google Cloud Build |
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Ke Ma (a.k.a. Mark), author, Senior Cloud Architect, RISE Cloud Advisory RA group
Special THANK YOU to RISE with SAP community members, who contributed to this blog:
Ferry Mulyadi, Partner Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
Micah Waldman, Product Management Lead, Google Cloud Business Continuity
Thorsten Staerk, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Chun Yuan, DevOps Engineer, SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Platform
Zabala Silvestre, Product Owner, SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Platform
Sven Bedorf, Head of Cloud Architecture & Advisory, RISE Cloud Advisory, MEE
Kevin Flanagan, Head of Cloud Architecture & Advisory, RISE Cloud Advisory, EMEA North
Luc DUCOIN, Cloud Architect & Advisor Expert, RISE Cloud Advisory, EMEA North
Richard Traut, Head of Cloud Architecture & Advisory, RISE Cloud Advisory, EMEA North
Peter van den Berg, Cloud Architect & Advisor Expert, RISE Cloud Advisory, MEE
Extended Reading: Announcement: Terraform provider for SAP BTP, by SAP colleague, rui.nogueira Tutorial: Automating SAP BTP setup with Terraform, by SAP colleague, mauriciolauffer Tutorial: the new Terraform provider for SAP BTP, by SAP colleague, mauriciolauffer
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