SAP Lens - AWS Well-Architected Framework

Publication date: October 4, 2022 (Document revisions)

This paper describes the SAP Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It is a collection of customer-proven design principles and best practices for ensuring SAP workloads on AWS are well-architected. Use the SAP Lens as a supplement to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which provides the foundations for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient applications and workloads on AWS.

The SAP Lens is based on insights that AWS has gathered from customers, AWS Partners, and our SAP specialist community. The lens has been designed to help you adopt a cloud native approach to running SAP. It highlights some of the most common areas for improvement, aligned to the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

In this content, we refer to SAP as the software running on AWS provided by the company SAP, best known for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. The guidance is intended to cover all of the SAP software that can run on AWS, including SAP Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA, and supporting products. Where a recommendation is specific to an SAP application or database, this has been highlighted (for example, SAP HANA databases).

The intended readers of this document are SAP technology architects, cloud architects, and team members who build, operate, and maintain SAP systems on AWS.