Combining SAP BTP & AWS
The industry-leading SAP BTP Integration Suite is a solution for APIs and integrations, and SAP's advantages make it a strong player in the integration market. Due to this, organizations may combine the SAP BTP Integration Suite to take advantage of the benefits of each platform in a hybrid model that works better as a whole.
When does a hybrid model make sense?
Combining technologies in a hybrid integration model is not only common; it’s recommended. Combining SAP and AWS creates a complete and robust solution for many use cases, allowing you to leverage a straightforward solution from one to increase the other’s performance and use. ?
Let's start the discussion if the following suggested AWS-services function seamlessly when used in tandem with SAP BTP Integration Suite
Amazon S3
S3 can act as a durable, scalable file system for object storage, which can be great for saving payloads from SAP BTP Integration Suite. SAP has created a?connector for S3 which can be used via SAP OpenConnectors.
Amazon SQS
You can link and decouple distributed software systems and components using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), which provides a safe, reliable, and always-available hosted queue. Combine your SAP landscape with this AWS service for feasable use-cases using SAP OpenConnectors.
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Amazon SNS
An excellent topic solution is SNS. It is simply a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers. This can be combined with SAP Event Mesh on SAP BTP handling events pushed from S/4HANA. In the end the topic can be pushed to a system like ServiceNow.
Amazon Kinesis
For collecting, analyzing, and streaming data in real-time, Kinesis is an excellent choice. Real-time needs are becoming more common in the digital transformation era, and combining SAP with Kinesis can provide the real-time streaming and analytics capability for these use cases.
Amazon AppFlow
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration tool that allows you to securely exchange data between SaaS apps like Salesforce, SAP, Slack?and AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Redshift. This service comes in handy if you would like include data sources like IoT, documents or other applications. In context of SAP you might extract data from your SAP system or SAP BW system for data replication purposes.
What this means for you
You’ll notice that many of these services you can use from AWS in a better together hybrid model with SAP BTP or S/4HANA. This has several advantages and typically results in an excellent hybrid approach that combines the power of SAP BTP with the price and scalability of AWS serverless services.
For integration puposes using the hybrid model you might think about guiding principles of SAP and AWS unified architecture. What are your thoughts on this? Does your organisation cover this type of guidelines? What is the opinion of your enterprise architect?