AWS and SAP partner to streamline ERP cloud implementation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP have announced GROW with SAP on AWS, making AWS the first cloud provider to offer the solution through its marketplace.
The partnership aims to simplify deployment of SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging AWS’s cloud infrastructure.
The collaboration will reduce ERP deployment time from years to months, eliminating upfront provisioning and licensing costs. Customers will benefit from unified billing and can use existing AWS credits and commitments.
At its core, GROW with SAP is a comprehensive cloud ERP solution designed to help businesses adopt SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition quickly and effectively. By leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure, this offering can provide a ready-to-run cloud ERP system that integrates industry best practices, preconfigured processes, and continuous innovation.
One of the drivers of this partnership has been customer demand. SAP note their customers have consistently told them they need three things: seamless scalability, ironclad security, and the ability to innovate rapidly. This new offering delivers on all three fronts.
Key features of GROW with SAP include prebuilt industry solutions for a broad array of manufacturing-centric and services-centric industries; rapid deployment using guided tools and methodologies like the SAP Activate process; scalability and flexibility; and embedded AI capabilities that are built into our end-to-end processes to enable real-time insights and process automation.
The solution integrates generative AI capabilities through Amazon Bedrock, available via SAP’s AI Core platform. This will complement Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot for business applications.
“For more than 16 years, we’ve worked to empower thousands of customers to transform their businesses through seamless integration of SAP solutions with AWS,” said Ruba Borno, vice president, Specialists and Partners at AWS.
“We were the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio, and GROW with SAP on AWS represents our shared commitment to continuing to make it easy to realize the benefits of cloud ERP.”
The platform will utilize AWS Nitro System for enhanced performance and security, while AWS Graviton chips will provide up to 60% energy savings compared to standard EC2 instances.
Major organizations including BBC, Hyundai, Moderna, and Zurich Insurance Group have already adopted the companies’ joint RISE with SAP solution for mission-critical workloads.
GROW with SAP on AWS will be available through AWS Marketplace in the coming months. Customers can explore the solution at aws.amazon.com/sap/grow.