Introduction
SAP systems are vital for business operations, making it essential to follow SAP best practices when planning their deployment and management. While many organizations are opting for RISE on AWS, numerous clients continue to run SAP natively on AWS. As workload demands evolve, teams must adapt swiftly to provision the necessary infrastructure while considering security principles, performance standards, and other non-functional requirements.
In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of building your SAP infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, leveraging the tools available in this GitHub repository. The foundational resources required to create an architecture similar to Figure 1 and host a single SAP system typically include:
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnets
- Security group configurations specific to SAP applications and databases
- EC2 instances
- EBS Volumes for SAP HANA
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for sapmnt and transport folders
- KMS Keys for encryption at rest
- S3 buckets for installation files, SAP backups, and archival storage
- IAM roles for instances, application administrators, auditors, and more
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