My colleague in Germany, AWS Evangelist Clara Schmidt, has crafted the following blog entry to guide you through the process of deploying SAP HANA One on AWS. Clara also manages the German-language AWSAktuell blog.
— Michael
A noteworthy software application that has generated considerable excitement recently is SAP HANA. This database utilizes in-memory technology, allowing data to be stored in compressed form in memory, which facilitates exceptionally rapid analytics.
Traditionally, SAP HANA is marketed by SAP as a hardware-software appliance, requiring a substantial initial investment for users. However, SAP HANA One offers a version of SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services, making it accessible for anyone to test, utilize, and develop software with this technology.
You can find SAP HANA One on the AWS Marketplace, where it operates on an hourly billing model. The software currently costs $0.99 per hour, along with the charges for a cc2.8xlarge AWS instance and the necessary EBS storage. Until May 30th, there’s a promotion providing $120 in credits for users who engage with SAP HANA One for at least 10 hours. This video demonstrates how to deploy SAP HANA One on AWS:
After your deployment, configuring your HANA instance is the next step. To do so, access the instance via https://ip-address using the Elastic IP address (EIP) assigned during deployment. You will need to enter the AWS credentials (Access Key and Secret Access Key) from an AWS account. This information helps HANA configure itself on AWS and manage operations like backups. It’s advisable to avoid using your AWS root account credentials; instead, create an IAM user and assign it to a group with Power User permissions. Then, input the credentials for this IAM user into the HANA console. You can easily delete this IAM account once you finish testing SAP HANA One. The subsequent video illustrates how to configure SAP HANA One on AWS:
After configuring your HANA instance, you can begin using the product. You can either utilize SAP HANA Studio for software development (a sample Android app is available here) or employ the graphical analytics tool, SAP Visual Intelligence. A trial for this tool can be found in the download tab of the console. In SAP Visual Intelligence, connect to your HANA instance using the assigned Elastic IP, the instance ID 00, the username “system,” and the password you assigned to the system. From there, you can select one of the sample datasets for interactive analysis. The following demo showcases how this process works:
Once you have tested SAP HANA One, it’s important to clean up to avoid incurring charges for unused resources. Be sure to:
- Terminate the instance
- Release the EIP
- Delete the EBS volumes utilized by the HANA instance
You may also consider deleting the IAM user.
For further insights on SAP HANA One and SAP on AWS in general, check out the resources available at SAP and Amazon Web Services, as well as SAP HANA One at SAP. Additionally, there is now a Premium Edition of SAP HANA ONE, which includes SAP Enterprise Support.
Best regards,
Clara
For additional reading, visit this blog post for more insights. If you want authoritative information, you can also check out this resource. For community discussions, this Reddit thread provides excellent insights as well.
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