Migrating Mission-Critical SAP Applications to Amazon Web Services

Public cloud providers are continuously innovating to build more scalable, reliable, and secure services.

Vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have invested heavily in SAP as demonstrated by the wide and ever expanding choices of SAP-certified compute instances that can accommodate even the most demanding compute needs.

Despite these advances, many CIOs are unclear on the best path to AWS and lack the internal resources and skill sets necessary to plan and execute a cloud strategy.

This white paper outlines how to minimize risks and ensure successful migration – even if the organization doesn’t have in-house AWS expertise.

Let’s explore three drivers that would prompt you to migrate your SAP environment to the public cloud:

1. The role of the IT leader has changed
2. Legacy technology creates risks
3. The public cloud speeds innovation and agility