Accelerated Migrations with AWS Migration Hub

⇨ An increasing number of companies are now moving to hosting SAP on the cloud to increase efficiency.

⇨ However, the migration process can be challenging owing to a lack of a unified platform that brings together the best practices, prescribed tooling, and automation methods.

⇨ AWS Migration Hub provides a set of tools to ease cloud migration and modernization efforts.

Most businesses still have SAP applications on-premises and a legacy infrastructure that is both cumbersome to manage as well as expensive. These legacy systems come with a considerable deferred hardware and maintenance charge, in addition to no room for growth or change. As a result, organizations often deal with slow processes, low scalability, and the inability to innovate or adapt rapidly when market conditions change.

An increasing number of companies are now hosting SAP on the cloud to overcome these hurdles. Migration to the cloud enables organizations to create a resilient, scalable, and secure environment that aligns well against changing requirements. For example, because the cloud allows resources to be easily scaled up or down based on demand, it can result in huge increases in performance and cost savings. Cloud platforms also provide advanced tools and services that enable companies to innovate faster, enhance operational efficiency, and stay competitive in an ever-changing market.

However, the migration process can be challenging owing to a lack of a unified platform that brings together the best practices and prescribed tooling and automation methods. Additionally, many migration tasks, such as conducting cloud-migration readiness checks on the setup configurations for successfully migrating or configuring existing systems with solutions that can help in scaling, are often manual and prone to errors.

AWS offers many migration tools and services to seamlessly transition application data from on-premises data centers or other cloud platforms to the AWS ecosystem. One such platform is AWS Migration Hub, a service from Amazon Web Services that is designed to make it easier for users to migrate SAP workloads to the AWS public cloud and simplifies the entire migration process from discovery and assessment to planning and execution, helping organizations streamline their migration and modernization efforts. The service integrates with AWS’s native migration tools, like AWS Server Migration Service and AWS Database Migration Service, and other partner tools, to ensure efficient data migrations.

AWS Migration Hub provides a set of tools to ease cloud migration and modernization efforts like journey templates with customization run books for guided planning, decreased reliance on specialists, and a central hub of cross-team collaboration. Both agent-based and agentless approaches for Application & Server Discovery are supported by the hub, which allows organizations to collect data through dependency mapping that helps plan a migration effectively.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator for SAP, a migration orchestration service, streamlines the migration of servers and enterprise applications by automating workflows, managing dependencies among various tools, and providing a single, central view of the migration progress. It provides predefined workflow templates that can be customized to fit unique migration requirements and enables organizations to use these templates to automate the deployment of application migrations and track progress all in one place.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator helps reduce migration costs and time by removing many of the manual tasks involved in migrating large-scale enterprise applications. It supports migrating SAP NetWeaver-based applications with HANA databases and rehosting any applications to AWS, using templates for steps like source environment validation, target provisioning, data replication, post-migration checks, and final cutover to AWS.