AWS is one of 445 current signatories of the Climate Pledge , which was co-founded by Amazon .
“ One project where we have been collaborating for a few years is SAP ’ s adoption of AWS Graviton for SAP HANA Cloud – the database foundation for BTP and RISE ,” comments Schwartz . AWS ’ Graviton processors leverage custom AWS silicon , and use up to 60 % less energy for the same performance than comparable Amazon EC2 instances .”
By migrating SAP HANA Cloud to AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances , SAP has seen up to 30 % better compute performance for analytical workloads and lowered its compute costs by 15 %. And with Graviton3-based instances using up to 60 % less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances , SAP can reduce the compute carbon footprint of the workloads of SAP HANA Cloud by an estimated 45 %.
This drive for sustainability is a common goal : in SAP ’ s Q3 2023 earnings its CEO Christian Klein mentioned innovating with AWS on Arm as one of its key strategic pillars .
“ We ’ re proud of the collaboration across both engineering teams , and we really believe it ’ s only the beginning ,” Schwartz comments . “ This is going to help our SAP customers reduce their carbon footprint . What I ’ m excited about is not just the innovation around being able to serve small and large customers , it ’ s about being able to serve them in a sustainable fashion .”
AWS and SAP partnership continuing to push boundaries The future for the partnership between AWS and SAP is bright . “ We are going to continue to push boundaries and break new ground for customers together at every layer of the stack ,” Schwartz says .
“ The 32TB High Memory Instances will be the largest instances available for SAP in the cloud , including RISE – but we also offer SAP-certified instances with as little as 256GB of memory ”
MATT SCHWARTZ GLOBAL HEAD OF AWS SAP ALLIANCE AND PARTNER NETWORK
This innovation – driven by AWS ’ customer-obsessed approach – starts with infrastructure to help customers run their SAP applications with better performance , cost , security and reliability , while reducing emissions .
As Schwartz concludes , the other aspect will be to help AWS customers more easily use SAP applications and AWS services together .
“ That ’ s what our customers want , and we want to meet that demand . We ’ re going to do this by continuing to help SAP build additional BTP services and regions , continuously publish more joint reference architectures for different use cases and add things like gen AI to those use cases .
“ Cloud is an innovation platform at this point , and we ’ re all in with SAP to harness the power of the broadest set of cloud services from AWS – including analytics , IoT and of course , generative AI – alongside SAP ’ s leading enterprise software to help our customers solve business problems .”
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