RISE W ITH SAP O N AW S

A new path to
SAP modernization
Contents
Thrive in an ever-changing world. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04

A customer-first approach to SAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05

Realize new cloud value on the journey to SAP S/4HANA.. . . . . . . . . . . . 06

Mitigate risk, reduce cost, and accelerate time to value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07

Key benefits of RISE with SAP on AWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08

Get started with SAP on AWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09

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Foreword

In times of constant change, modernizing and

innovating quickly have become vital to business
success. For many of the world’s enterprises, this
means modernizing SAP. SAP modernization enables
forward-thinking organizations to create new business
models, respond to evolving customer needs, increase
supply chain transparency and much more. As a single
contract, subscription-based SAP S/4HANA offering,
RISE with SAP represents a new pathway for AWS
customers to realize these rewards.

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Thrive in an ever-changing world
Whenever we talk to our SAP customers, we find that each one has a different set of business priorities as
they look to migrate and modernize their SAP systems. Some want to retain the maximum flexibility to

5000+
innovate with cloud services and extend through AWS services, while others prefer a simpler approach.

Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, a single-tenant, SAP-managed S/4HANA solution that bundles
software licensing, cloud infrastructure, and managed services in a single contract from SAP. According to
customers have chosen to transform their
modelled estimates based on IDC studies, SAP asserts that RISE can deliver a 20% reduction in TCO over
SAP landscapes on AWS’s secure, reliable,
five years when compared to traditional on-premises deployments.
and scalable global infrastructure
With the potential to drive cost savings through a subscription-based approach to SAP modernization,
RISE with SAP is positioned to meet SAP ERP customers, both new and existing, wherever they are in their
journey to transform their legacy ERP (SAP and 3rd party) into a cloud-based SAP S/4HANA solution.

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A customer-first approach to SAPs
At AWS one of our core principles is customer obsession, meaning that we work
backwards from customers’ needs to offer the best possible services and guidance
we can. In fact, more than 90% of AWS offerings are developed as a direct result of
customer feedback. This includes many of our industry firsts for SAP customers. 90%
This is one of the reasons SAP has trusted AWS to support their innovation journey of SAP on AWS services have been developed
since 2008. Today, most of their customer-facing offerings run on AWS, including as a direct result of customer feedback
NS2, SAP Concur, SAP HANA Cloud, and RISE with SAP.

AWS now offers more options for running SAP than ever before, including RISE with
SAP on AWS, ECC lift and shift, and S/4 native. This ensures that our customers can
reliably implement cloud-based SAP in a way that best suits their organization.

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W H Y SA P O N A W S?
Realize new cloud
value on the journey
to SAP S/4HANA
Reliability and availability
AWS is the only cloud service provider to offer
a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero
AWS’s exceptional network performance and global
infrastructure means that we can offer an RPO of
zero for RISE deployments— 30 minutes faster than
any other cloud service provider. This means that no
transactional data of productional SAP systems is lost
when disaster recovery processes are invoked.
RISE with SAP on AWS: A new path to SAP modernization
Experience
AWS offers a proven cloud platform for
SAP customers of all sizes and industries
With 5000+ existing SAP customers and 10+ years’
experience helping customers to migrate and
modernize SAP, businesses can rely on AWS’s proven
expertise and services to forego the cost, complexity,
and risk of on-premises solutions.
Security
AWS has been powering SAP NS2 – a secure SAP
cloud – three times longer than other cloud providers
Many SAP RISE customers choose AWS for our security.
We are trusted by the US Navy to run its largest SAP
ERP system, a testament to our expertise. The AWS
Nitro System also pushes virtualization logic to the
hardware layer, which reduces the surface prone to
cyber attacks.
Performance
Innovate faster and reduce costs with the
AWS Nitro System
The AWS Nitro System, which supports RISE
with SAP on AWS, offers more SAPS per dollar
by offloading virtualization to dedicated
hardware and software, delivering practically
all of the resources of the server.
Global footprint
Scalable and high-performance cloud
infrastructure wherever you need it
The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most
extensive and reliable cloud platform, offering
over 200 fully featured services from data centers
globally. AWS has been named a leader in Gartner’s
Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and
Platform Services 11 years in a row.
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RISE W IT H SA P O N A W S
As an end-to-end solution, RISE with SAP on AWS delivers faster
Mitigate risk, reduce time to value and the flexibility of the cloud by bundling…

cost, and accelerate

time to value
Today, RISE with SAP on AWS represents one of
many options that our customers have to migrate
and modernize their ERP environments. Infrastructure and
Cloud infrastructure SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP application managed
RISE with SAP gives AWS customers the services/support
opportunity to deliver cloud value by converting
existing systems or starting completely fresh
with a greenfield S/4HANA deployment.

SAP Business One Business

Technology Platform Network
(BTP, formerly SAP Cloud Platform) (formerly SAP Ariba Network)

…into a single monthly, per user subscription.

AWS is excited to partner with SAP in an effort to resolve our customers’
challenges and clear a path to future innovation. RISE represents yet another
option to deploy SAP on AWS, in addition to running SAP ERP (ECC and
S/4HANA) using traditional licensing models.

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Key benefits of RISE with SAP on AWS
Enhanced value
RISE with SAP accelerates time to value by enabling
a transition from CapEx to OpEx expenses via a
single subscription. By reducing upfront investment,
businesses gain the freedom to extend and innovate
across the AWS Platform.
RISE with SAP on AWS: A new path to SAP modernization
A data-driven approach
Analyzing the performance of your processes and
benchmarking them against industry standards
enables RISE with SAP customers to quicky pinpoint
priority first steps and drive continuous business
transformation in the cloud.
Simplified engagement
By consolidating all of your service-level agreements,
operations, and issue handling into one solution,
RISE with SAP can help you to reduce the risk of
transformation while preserving customizations to
your existing ECC landscape.
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Get started with SAP on AWS
No matter which SAP strategy is right for your business, AWS can
provide the tools, resources, and partner support to help you execute
your cloud modernization.

AWS experts are available to help you build your business case as soon
as you are ready, considering every aspect from the S/4HANA roadmap
while adapting to your unique starting point on the cloud journey.

Whether it be RISE with SAP on AWS or a different implementation

altogether, together with AWS you can:

Modernize your core

Innovate faster Reduce costs
business processes

Improve reliability Strengthen your

and availability security posture

If you are looking to accelerate the rewards of cloud-based SAP,

discover how AWS can help you to discover your next best steps
for S/4HANA transformation.

Get started

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