SAP customers can fully realize all the benefits of SAP S/4HANA in the AWS Cloud for systems of all sizes. With SAP S/4HANA on AWS you can:

  • Achieve faster time to value with the AWS on-demand infrastructure.
  • Rapidly provision infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA with no upfront cost or long-term commitment.
  • Pay for only what you need. Don't spend upfront costs purchasing hardware for what you can't forecast.
  • Test and evaluate SAP S/4HANA with a free trial offering from SAP on AWS.

ISG names AWS a leader for SAP HANA Infrastructure Services for the third year in a row. In their 2020 Provider Lens for SAP HANA Infrastructure Services, ISG named AWS as a leader for the third consecutive year, listing customer choice, migration experience/client success, the Migration Acceleration Program for SAP, and AWS Launch Wizard as strengths. 

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) High Memory instances offer 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 TB of memory in an instance. These instances are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases, including production deployments of the SAP HANA in-memory database, in the cloud. EC2 High Memory instances allow you to run large in-memory databases and business applications that rely on these databases in the same, shared Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), reducing the management overhead associated with complex networking and ensuring predictable performance.

For the first time, customers have the ability to leverage scale-out setups for their SAP S/4HANA workloads in the cloud and take advantage of the innovation of the AWS Nitro System, a combination of purpose-built hardware and software components that provide the unparalleled performance, security, isolation, elasticity, and efficiency of the infrastructure that powers Amazon EC2 instances. You can now scale-out up to four nodes, totaling 48 TB of memory, for extremely large S/4HANA deployments.

To learn more, see Announcing support for extremely large S/4HANA deployments on AWS.


For a detailed overview of the benefits and options for running SAP S/4HANA on AWS, see the SAP S/4HANA on AWS Overview Guide.


Standard installation
SAP S/4HANA can be deployed in the AWS Cloud by using the standard SAP S/4HANA installation process. To streamline the SAP HANA database installation, we have created the SAP HANA on AWS Quick Start reference deployment. For information about installing the SAP S/4HANA NetWeaver AS instance on AWS, see the SAP on AWS Overview and Planning guide.

SAP S/4HANA trial
Explore SAP S/4HANA with a free 30-day software trial from SAP on AWS. The SAP S/4HANA trial provides a complete landscape to explore the power, flexibility, and customization available in SAP S/4HANA. Start your software trial.

SAP S/4HANA on AWS uses a Bring Your Own License model for the SAP software components. Operating system licenses are provided by AWS, and their relevant license fees are combined with the base hourly fee of the respective Amazon EC2 instance type.

The following table provides pricing estimates of AWS infrastructure for sample SAP S/4HANA systems. Each configuration uses separate EC2 instances for the SAP HANA database system and the SAP NetWeaver application server system. Depending on your requirements, it is possible to collocate the SAP NetWeaver application server system on the same EC2 instance as the SAP HANA database, providing a lower cost. For additional information about estimating AWS infrastructure pricing for SAP solutions, see the SAP on AWS Pricing Guide.

HANA DB system   NetWeaver AS system  
EC2
instance type
vCPU Memory
(GiB)
Supported
for production**
EC2
instance type
vCPU Memory
(GiB)
Monthly
cost***
r4.4xlarge 16 122 No r4.large 2 15.25 See estimate
r4.8xlarge 32 244 Yes r5.xlarge 4 32 See estimate

r5.8xlarge

32

256

Yes

r5.xlarge

4

32

See estimate

r5.12xlarge 48 384 Yes r5.2xlarge 8 64 See estimate
r4.16xlarge 64 488 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.16xlarge

64

512

Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.24xlarge 96 768 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.metal 96 768 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1.16xlarge 64 976 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1.32xlarge 128 1,952 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1e.32xlarge 128 3,904 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-6tb1.56xlarge 224 6,144 Yes r5.4xlarge 16

128

See pricing

u-6tb1.112xlarge 448 6,144 Yes r5.4xlarge 16

128

See pricing

u-9tb1.112xlarge 448 9,216 Yes r5.4xlarge 16

128

See pricing

u-12tb1.112xlarge 448 12,288 Yes r5.4xlarge 16

128

See pricing

u-6tb1.metal 488* 6,144 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-9tb1.metal 488* 9,216 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-12tb1.metal 488* 12,288 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-18tb1.metal

448*

18,432

Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-24tb1.metal

448*

24,576

Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

*Each logical processor is a hyperthread on 224 CPU cores.

**For additional information about the different AWS SAP HANA configurations supported by SAP for production, see SAP note #1964437 (access to the SAP Support Portal is required to view SAP notes).

***Monthly cost will be based on your actual usage of AWS services, and will vary from the estimates provided above. For additional information, see the SAP on AWS Pricing Guide.

The following table provides pricing estimates of AWS infrastructure for sample SAP S/4HANA three-tier (PRD/QAS/DEV) landscapes. Each configuration uses separate EC2 instances for the SAP HANA database system and the SAP NetWeaver application server system. Depending on your requirements, it might be possible to collocate the SAP NetWeaver application server system on the same EC2 instance as the SAP HANA database, providing a lower cost. For additional information about estimating AWS infrastructure pricing for SAP solutions, see the SAP on AWS Pricing Guide.

Production
HANA DB system
  Production
NetWeaver AS system
 
EC2
instance type
vCPU Memory
(GiB)
  Supported for production** EC2
instance type
vCPU Memory
(GiB)
Monthly
cost***
r4.8xlarge 32 244 Yes

r5.xlarge

4

32

See estimate

r5.8xlarge

32

256

Yes

r5.xlarge

4

32

See estimate

r5.12xlarge 48 384 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r4.16xlarge 64 488 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.16xlarge

64

512

Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.24xlarge 96 768 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

r5.metal 96 768 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1.16xlarge 64 976 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1.32xlarge 128 1,952 Yes

r5.2xlarge

8

64

See estimate

x1e.32xlarge 128 3,904 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-6tb1.56xlarge 224 6,144 Yes r5.4xlarge 16 128 See pricing
u-6tb1.112xlarge 488 6,144 Yes r5.4xlarge 16 128 See pricing
u-9tb1.112xlarge 488 9,216 Yes r5.4xlarge 16 128 See pricing
u-12tb1.112xlarge 488 12,288 Yes r5.4xlarge 16 128 See pricing
u-6tb1.metal 488* 6,144 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-9tb1.metal 488* 9,216 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-12tb1.metal 488* 12,288 Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-18tb1.metal

448*

18,432

Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

u-24tb1.metal

448*

24,576

Yes

r5.4xlarge

16

128

See estimate

*Each logical processor is a hyperthread on 224 CPU cores.

**For additional information about the different AWS SAP HANA configurations supported by SAP for production, see SAP note #1964437 (access to the SAP Support Portal is required to view SAP notes).

***Monthly cost will be based on your actual usage of AWS services, and will vary from the estimates provided above. For additional information, see the SAP on AWS Pricing Guide.