Today's SAP Mentor Monday webcast
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Chris mentioned
6 SAP Inside Tracks before SAP TechEd Las Vegas.
Abstract:
The AWS Cloud can help you move faster, operate more securely, and save substantial costs; all while benefitting from the scale and performance of the cloud. We’ll provide a general overview of Amazon’s cloud architecture, cover AWS services that are certified for SAP workloads (including SAP HANA) and touch on high-availability and disaster recovery scenarios.
Presenter: Martin Tegtmeier, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
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Martin is involved in SAP certifications on AWS and other things
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Why build cloud services? Traditional IT is hard
Purchase server up front, pay it, not using to capacity
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Provision in hours
Provision temporary infrastructures for proof of concept
Only take a few seconds to deploy
Pay as you go
Chris said "Using the Quick start stuff - you can have a full HANA system in 1hr, 30mins of which is the software download"
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Size for what you need
As server grows, your server grows as you need
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Virtual servers hosted in cloud
Announced 62nd price reduction 2 weeks ago
Never had a price increase over the past 11 years
Same operating system as on-premise
Bring your own license flavor is available
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EC2 is secure
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You inherit these certifications when using AWS
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Where is my data located? Multiple availability zones. You choose the region of choice
Special AWS account to deploy to "gov" clouds
Insulated from failures in other areas
Redundant power, connectivity
Lots of regions means global reach
Green circles means plans in 6 months
No current plans for Africa/Middle East; based on demand
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SAP notes are shown above
If you clone system, new system ID and new hardware key, invalidate license
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AWS credits - some PoC for TB instances
Chris said:
I have to say, AWS has the biggest library of White papers - although they have been doing it the longest
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SAP EC2 certified instances are shown above
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Think of the above as "hard disks" attached to your EC2 instance
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IP address, host names, - deploys SAP HANA appliance
Quick start deployment meets all KPI's that SAP has put in place
Can be used for production workloads
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Reduce your bill; dashboard keeps track of your usage
Worth looking at trusted advisor to save money
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Cloud Watch monitors data
Cloud Trail - complete documentation of all changes of AWS infrastructure; on-premise you cannot guarantee this. Cloud trail is the "full audit trail" of changes
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You can use SAP CAL to deploy
AWS does not sell SAP licenses
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Integrated to SAP Support queues
Your responsibility to patch the system
See Amazon Partner Network to help you manage AWS deployed SAP enviornment
Look at SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud for an offering for AWS
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High availability and disaster recovery available
Enable auto recovery, do that instantly
Serves over 1 million active accounts
Growing 50-60% year over year
Links:
Question about SAP Cloud Platform - Chris supplied this:
http://diginomica.com/2017/05/14/sap-cloud-platform-the-multi-cloud-almost-realized-a-sapphirenow-20...
Moya Watson added "SAP Cloud Platform can already spin up an instance on AWS via Cloud Foundry" and "AP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry will spin up on AWS in Europe and in US East. in US West, it's currently Azure (beta)"
Q: So if we (in Seattle) were to sign up for SCP now, it would be on Azure and in beta? Or does the beta designation mean it would be on SAP's own infrastructure?
A: if you want to use the cloud foundry environment, yes --
Q: Which hypervisor is used?
A: Amazon uses its own
Q: Is there a list with in build security features for i.e. internet SAP systems? (DDos Services etc, )
A: Yes there is; contact Security SA
Q: I got a little confused about adding memory to an existing instance. First it sounded like there's a need to restart the instance, and have some downtime (admittedly just a few minutes). But then I thought I heard that it can be done without taking the instance down. Is that because of utilizing a failover scenario? Or did I misunderstand?
A: it needs HANA downtime, not ABAP downtime - but most Basis people will bring ABAP down to save on the reporting the System log