AWS Launch Wizard – SAP

Naresh Pasumarthy
EC2 Product Manager – SAP

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 SAP | AWS innovations
11 years of industry firsts

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BW A1/B1 10’s
Suite on AnyDB

2008 2012 100’s

2015

SuccessFactors HANA
Developer Edition
244GB

FAST Migration 2017 2016

1,000’s
X1
Concur Cloud Native HANA
SAP 2TB/14TB
Cloud Platform
2018

High Memory
Instance 1,000’s
SAP Analytics Elastic Metal
12TB / 50TB 5,000+
Industry Solutions HANA Cloud Cloud 48TB/100TB

2020
S/4Move 2019
U* Launch Wizard for SAP
Data Warehouse
Cloud Native HANA As a Service
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 AWS Launch Wizard for SAP
Wizard based experience to deploy and configure AWS resources for HANA database
And SAP Netweaver based applications on HANA

Features:

• SAP Certified AWS resource

recommendation for SAP workloads

• Re-Use Infra settings

• Performs SAP Specific

Configurations

• Cost Estimates

• Central place to view SAP

deployments

• Integrated with Systems Manager

and CloudWatch logs

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SAP System Deployment Process with AWS Launch Wizard
On-Premises AW
S
Application Specific Customer Application Teams
Application Team perform application
Configuration configuration
Customer Basis Team configure
deployed SAP system
AWS Launch Wizard deploys HANA
SAP Software Install database & SAP Software for
Basis Team
supported applications

Server and Storage AWS Launch Wizard for HANA

Configuration and SAP Netweaver based on
HANA

Operating System deployment

Infrastructure
Teams and Storage allocation
Compute, Storage, Networking and
Security
Hardware Setup

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 AWS Launch Wizard for SAP
An AWS service that simplifies deployment of HANA based SAP applications by orchestrating provision Major features released since GA
of AWS services needed by an SAP system/Landscape • SAP Software Installation NEW
• Pre/Post Deployment configuration
scripts
• c5a instance support
AWS Services that Launch Wizard works with • AWS Backint for HANA Deployment and
Configuration
AWS AWS • Multi-route table support for HANA HA
AWS
EC2 EBS Marketplace
Lambda • Route53 integration
Backint CloudFormation
• SLES 12 SP5 rollout
Session • SLES 15 SP1 rollout
SSM VPC AWSTOE EFS KMS • RHEL 8.1 rollout
Manager
• Region expansion to BAH, CPT, HKG &
CloudWatch MXP
IAM S3 Route53 Logs • Proxy support - Allowing customers
deploy SAP systems in environments
where outgoing connection is allowed via
proxies
Resource Provisioning For Orchestration • Multiple subnet support for App and DB
layer deployments

Operating Systems Support Application Support

SLES 15 SP1, SLES 15 for SAP SP1, SLES 15, SLES 15 • HANA Database (Single/Multi-Node/High Availability)
for SAP, SLES 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 for SAP, RHEL 8.1, • SAP Netweaver on HANA based applications (Single/Multi-
RHEL 7.6, SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4 for SAP Node/High Availability)

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Supported Deployment Models - HANA

AWS Cloud AWS Cloud AWS Cloud

VPC VPC VPC

Availability Zone Availability Zone Availability Zone Availability Zone

Private subnet Private subnet Private subnet Private subnet

HANA
HANA HANA HANA
HANA

HANA

Single Node Deployment Multi Node Deployment Cross AZ High

Availability Deployment
• HANA Side-Car
• HANA DataMart
• Native HANA Applications

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Supported Deployment Models – Netweaver on HANA
AWS Cloud AWS Cloud AWS Cloud

VPC VPC VPC

Availability Zone
Availability Zone Availability Zone Availability Zone
Private subnet Private subnet Private subnet
Private subnet

ASCS
ASCS/PAS ERS

APP APP APP APP

APP APP

ASCS/PAS/DB

Private subnet Private subnet

DB
DB DB
DB

Single Instance Deployment Distributed Instance Deployment Cross AZ High Availability Pattern

To deploy and run – Netweaver based applications such as SAP S/4HANA, ECC on HANA, BW on HANA, BW4HANA
etc.
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SAP System Deployment process with AWS Launch Wizard

AWS Launch Wizard

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Choose deployment Provide SAP
Create/Re-Use
Define SAP system Application
Infrastructure model and SAP Review and Deploy
wide settings Software and
configuration component
(APP/DB) settings Settings
settings

Configure and
release SAP system
to end users

By Customer’s SAP Basis

Admin Team

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AWS Backint Agent – Deployment and Configuration
Help customer deploy AWS Backing Agent as part of HANA deployments making it a single step process.

Support’s:
SAP HANA
IAM Role
AWS Backint
Agent

SAP HANA data SAP HANA log

S3 Bucket

• 1.02 (default)
• 1.01
• 1.0

Choose S3 bucket of choice for Encrypt backups Instance role update Recommend latest Optionally provision local EBS
saving backups using KMS key guidance Version by default backup volumes for file-level
while allowing backups.
customers to choose
older versions
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 Pre/Post Deployment Configuration Scripts

Features:
• Script location: S3/Upload from desktop
Start
• Single/Multiple scripts based on
deployment model to allow configuring
EC2 running different SAP components
EC2 Instances Launched EC2 instances for HANA and SAP application layer
differently

• Customer takes complete responsibility of

Baseline Activities Deploy awscli, cloudwatch agent, ssm agent, boto, python
the success/failure of the scripts

• Customers can continue to provision Pre Deployment Configuration Scripts Customer provided scripts (Max Execution time: 45mins)
workload inspite of failure
Automation need to launch and configure AWS resources based on
• Central logging in Cloudwatch logs Workload/Component specific LW SAP components involved
configuration for HANA/ Netweaver (Like SAP File systems, OS config for HANA/Netweaver, HANA DB
performed install etc)
Pre Examples: Post Examples:
- Security agents - Management Agents
- Operational agents (ITSM, Post Deployment Configuration Scripts Customer provided scripts (Max Execution time: 2 hrs)
- OS Hardening scripts
- Logging Agents (like Backup software)
Splunk) - Domain joining
- Run your own
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customizations that LW
does not cover like
additional tags

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Service Catalog

• ITSM Process alignment

• Service Catalog
• ServiceNow
• Why?
• Create and manage a catalog of SAP products that are
approved for use by SAP teams
• Centrally manage commonly deployed IT services
• Achieve consistent governance and meet your
compliance requirements, while enabling users to
quickly deploy only the approved IT services they
need.
• Taking Customer DevOps investments in to
considerations
• Service Catalog
• Who can deploy
• What they can deploy
• Restrict inputs to least minimum
needed
• ServiceNow
• Additionally CMDB linking & AWS
resource mapping

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SAP Software Deployment:
AWS Launch Wizard allows customers to deploy Netweaver on HANA, S/4HANA and BW/4HANA applications as part of
LW deployments

Application Software deployment Support for

High
Single-node Multi-node
Availability*

Key Highlights:

• Support SAP software and versions

• S/4HANA 1909 & 2020
• Netweaver on HANA 7.5 SPS00 & 7.5 SPS02
• BW/4HANA 2.0

• Customers can provide SAP application software access via S3 bucket

• Customers can customize the SAP Software installation by providing details such as ABAP Schema name, SAP System instance ID’s,
Virtual Hostnames, number of Dialog/Background work processes to configure the application per their requirements.

* Customer will have to configure SUSE/RHEL HA Cluster post install for the Application layer

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AWS Launch Wizard for SAP use cases
Assess
• Discovery Workshop
• Explore Modernization &
Migration Strategies
• Landscape assessment
• Pain points
• Requirements
• Business Priorities
• SLAs
• Conceptual Architecture
• POC / Pilot
• AWS Launch Wizard
• Migration Plan
• Business Case
Launch Wizard to build
SAP systems during POC
and Pilot
Migrate
• Best Practices
• Migration Framework
• Migration Path
• Technical Documentation
• Tools
• AWS Launch Wizard
• AWS Quick Starts
• SAP certified Compute &
Storage
…to build SAP systems
as part of actual
migration of DEV, TST,
QA, PRD, etc.)
Operate Automate Innovate
• Best Practices • Best Practices
• Tools • Tools
• BC/HA/DR • AWS Launch Wizard
• AWS Launch Wizard
• Deployment • AWS Systems Manager
• Industry examples
• AWS Launch Wizard • AWS Load Balancing for SAP
• Discovery workshop
• AWS Quick Starts • AWS Backup for SAP
• Analytics, Big Data, IoT,
• Access • AWS CloudWatch (Monitoring)
Data Lake
• Amazon AppStream • AWS Config (OS configurations)
• ML/AI
(user access) • Auto Start-up & Shut-down
• Enterprise Architecture
• AWS Single Sign-On • Auto-Scaling for SAP
alignment
• AWS Session Manager • Serverless System Copy for SAP
• Digital Transformation
• Monitoring • AWS CloudFormation
projects
• Amazon Cloud Watch • Automated HANA DB patches
• AWS CloudTrail • Automated EBS storage type
• AWS Config changes
• AWS Data Provider for • Automated Instance type
SAP (SAPOSCOL & SAP changes
CIM) • Automated HANA HA
• AWS Systems Manager • Automated SAP application HA
(Linux Patching) (ASCS, ERS)
…to build ad-hoc SAP
… as part of Disaster
systems for new
Recovery deployment to
application test,
stand up systems fast
projects, n+1 systems