Why migrate your SAP systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

Implementing SAP on the cloud can revolutionize SAP systems into agile, cost-efficient, and scalable system, facilitating an organization to be more efficient and respond faster to shifting market conditions and capitalize on new technologies and business models.

Organizations with traditional on-premise infrastructure requires greater capital investment, extra IT support for manage and maintain the servers, higher maintenance cost and above all limit your organization’s ability to scale. Organizations have been facing these difficulties with on-premise infrastructure even before the pandemic. The onset of COVID-19 has taught us that on-premise infrastructure cannot offer the same agility level as cloud services, forcing organizations to adopt cloud services to remain relevant, facilitate remote work-processes, to stay competitive and to serve customers.

Since the pandemic, leading cloud service provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has seen a steep increase in demand from enterprises for cloud services to equip themselves to adapt and meet business requirement.

Here are why companies are migrating their SAP systems to AWS:

• Lower Costs:
  Expense reduction is the fundamental advantage of implementing cloud-based solutions. On-premise software applications require a huge capital investment for acquiring licenses, recurring cost for support and maintenance, resources such as manpower and space etc. Whereas operating SAP system in AWS cloud can prove to be highly cost-efficient as its requires zero up front investments on infrastructure or technology. It offers a pay-as-you-go approach allowing organizations to pay for the services you use and the duration you use those services.
   
• Flexibility:
  SAP deployments on AWS offers organizations and their employees higher flexibility in their work practices as systems and real-time data can be accessed swiftly and easily, anywhere, anytime on devices such as smartphones and laptops.
   
• Scalability:
  With your SAP on AWS, use only the infrastructure and memory required for your system and you have the advantage to scale up or down as per requirements. This process is accomplished within minutes unlike on-premise infrastructure, where the infrastructure and memory allocation have to be decided in advance and organizations might end up over utilizing or under utilizing the resources.
   
• Streamlined Disaster Recovery:
  AWS provides the right tools to recover from disaster such as downtime and data loss by swiftly restoring the data.
   
• Security and Compliance:
  With the growing incidents on cyberattacks and data loss, organizations find it ideal to take advantage of AWS security service as AWS provides enterprise level of security protection and encryption.AWS is compliant with various international standards and regulations,removing the requirement for clients to acquire additional infrastructure for compliance.

A huge number of organizations have realized that migrating SAP systems to AWS has helped them to improve business efficiency, accelerate performance, innovate faster, promote unification of data into a single repository and cut costs.