AWS Graviton Chips Support SAP HANA Cloud and other Advanced SAP Solutions
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⇨ AWS Graviton is a series of processors designed to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
⇨ SAP has experienced up to 30% better compute performance for analytical workloads by moving SAP HANA Cloud to AWS Graviton.
⇨ SAP and AWS are now collaborating on Graviton4, the next generation AWS chips for SAP HANA Cloud to further enhance performance and efficiency.
Companies are increasingly building intelligent solutions that process large volumes of data in real-time to provide advanced analytical capabilities and insights. This leads to increased compute and memory demands on the cloud. These additional resources call for a cloud solution that minimizes cost while providing enhanced performance and energy efficiency.
SAP customers actively use AWS across SAP’s cloud enterprise portfolio and RISE with SAP and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) are two of the most used solutions. SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton went live in November 2023. AWS Graviton is a series of processors designed to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and companies can choose the AWS Graviton-based instance that best meets their needs.
This extended collaboration between SAP and AWS will be beneficial to any customers who use SAP HANA systems and rely on AWS as their infrastructure provider. By running SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton, these customers can optimize their compute costs.
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SAP has experienced the following benefits by moving SAP HANA Cloud to AWS Graviton
- Up to 30% better compute performance for analytical workloads
- 15% lower compute costs
- Up to 60% less energy consumption
SAP is also a partner in Amazon’s The Climate Pledge through which SAP works with multiple organizations across different countries to protect the environment. Running SAP workloads on AWS Graviton is a major step towards reducing carbon emissions by an estimated 45%.
“This collaboration with AWS on the use of Graviton demonstrates our commitment to reduce the impact of our technologies on the environment while continuing to provide value in the solutions we bring to market,” said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.
SAP and AWS are now collaborating on Graviton4, the next generation AWS chips for SAP HANA Cloud to enhance performance and efficiency. Following the success of running SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton, SAP has planned to use AWS Graviton to support SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Cloud ALM.
Apart from AWS Graviton, SAP also plans to use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips, which are built specifically for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads to train and deploy future SAP Business AI offerings. These collaborations between AWS and SAP lead to higher productivity, efficiency and help build intelligent enterprises.
