Cloud-Native SAP: Transforming Enterprise Applications with AWS Services

Sachin Bhatt¹ & Dr. Saurabh Solanki²

¹Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

Madhya Pradesh, India

²Aviktechnosoft Private Limited

Govind Nagar, Mathura, UP, India, PIN-281001

Abstract— The confluence of cloud-native platforms with enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, i.e., SAP, has been a revolutionary move for organizations seeking to achieve operational agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Cloud service providers, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) being a case in point, have become leading platforms for hosting and optimizing SAP applications. This research scrutinizes the expansion of cloud-native SAP systems with AWS services from 2015 to 2020, with an emphasis on significant benefits, challenges, and best practices. Study findings have unveiled significant benefits like improved performance, infrastructure cost-effectiveness, and resource elasticity. AWS services like EC2, RDS, and Lambda provide SAP-specific with customized offerings for enterprises to maximize their SAP workloads, improve data security, and reduce system administration complexity. Nonetheless, with all these benefits, data migration, system integration, and security remain major challenges. The research highlights a lack of knowledge of precise integration approaches for complex SAP systems, especially in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Although a majority of studies reveal AWS’s scalability and process automation features, few touch on the specific mechanisms for successful SAP migration, microservices integration, and industry standards compliance. The necessity is an impetus for further research into migration frameworks, security protocols, and performance optimization techniques for SAP workloads on AWS. This paper proposes potential research directions for bridging these challenges and expanding the body of cloud-native transformations in SAP applications, thus facilitating best practices and guidelines for organizations embarking on cloud migrations.

Keywords — Cloud-native SAP, AWS services, ERP systems, SAP migration, scalability, performance optimization, hybrid cloud, microservices, AWS Lambda, cloud transformation, data security, SAP S/4HANA, resource management, cost-efficiency, enterprise applications, cloud integration, automation, compliance.

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