Amazon Graviton Is Now Supported by SAP HANA Cloud

Incorporates AWS Graviton Support for SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud now supports AWS Graviton processors, according to a recent announcement from SAP SE and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using AWS Graviton-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, SAP is expanding its cloud-native, in-memory database to benefit from AWS’s cost, performance, and energy efficiency advantages.

Solutions from AWS and SAP are used by thousands of joint clients to power their vital business operations. Customers’ needs for computation and memory increase as they develop data-driven, intelligent applications that let users make decisions more quickly and precisely. These clients need solutions that reduce expenses without sacrificing effectiveness or energy efficiency. SAP may reduce its computing expenses and make these savings available to its clients by deciding to operate SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton.

“SAP and AWS have a long history of providing value in an environmentally conscious manner,” stated Juergen Mueller, a member of SAP SE’s Executive Board and Chief Technology Officer. “Our dedication to minimizing the environmental impact of our technologies while maintaining the quality of our solutions for the market is demonstrated by our partnership with AWS on the use of Graviton.”

According to David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS, “improving the power efficiency of AWS chips is one of the most visible ways we are innovating.” “Our Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processors bring a potent combination of energy efficiency and price performance to SAP, delivering the best performance per watt of energy use in Amazon EC2.”

For a range of workloads running in Amazon EC2, arm-based AWS Graviton processors provide the highest pricing performance over equivalent x86-based instances by utilizing AWS’s vast experience in systems design and cloud infrastructure. With the migration of SAP HANA Cloud to AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances, SAP has experienced a 15% reduction in compute costs and up to 30% higher compute performance for analytical workloads.

Additionally, SAP can lower the computational carbon footprint of the SAP HANA Cloud workloads by an estimated 45% thanks to Graviton3-based instances, which use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than similar EC2 instances does. Additionally, AWS Graviton3 can support the newest DDR5 memory, which offers 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4 and can boost memory-intensive applications’ performance.

SAP is actively collaborating with 427 organizations in 38 countries as a signatory of Amazon’s The Climate Pledge, with the ultimate goal of lowering carbon emissions and improving the environment. SAP may enhance its efforts to lower its carbon footprint and support efforts to address the climate issue by deciding to run SAP HANA Cloud on AWS Graviton.

The history of SAP and AWS dates back to 2008, when SAP created and tested the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, which served as the foundation for many additional SAP cloud products on AWS, including SAP S/4HANA. SAP customers still use AWS today for the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and RISE with SAP solution, which are part of SAP’s cloud enterprise portfolio.

Additionally, AWS is used by the SAP NS2 Secure Data Cloud service to provide reliable and secure solutions. This service is intended for public sector and defense customers with particularly strict security and compliance requirements. SAP software on AWS is also a must for Amazon companies like Twitch, Zappos.com, and Zoox Inc. in order to support their national and international operations.

In order to benefit from the increased performance, lower costs, and more energy efficiency, SAP intends to increase its usage of AWS Graviton in the future.