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13 Migrating SAP to the Cloud | How to transform your enterprise backbone into a competitive advantage As businesses explore options for modernizing their SAP environments, many are evaluating SAP S/4HANA, an ERP system that leverages artificial intelligence to help companies digitally transform operations. The system is powered by SAP HANA, an in-memory relational database management system and data platform that supports real-time processing for transactions and analytics. It also allows you to manage all your SAP data in one place, eliminating the need to manage and maintain separate legacy systems and siloed data. As a result, organizations can support their business using real-time data, while also reducing their data and hardware footprint. This is driving many customers to adopt SAP S/4HANA as part of their cloud migration. This enables an organization to realize the benefits of both S/4HANA and cloud immediately after their migration. While SAP S/4HANA offers significant benefits, migrating existing SAP applications to S/4HANA is a significant undertaking. For this reason, other customers are electing to lift and shift existing SAP applications to the cloud and delaying their S/4HANA migration for the time being. These customers can still realize significant benefits, including cost savings, improved performance, increased agility, and access to innovative offerings such as IoT, AI/ML, and real-time analytics, which are complex and costly to build on-premises. It's important to select a cloud provider that will support your particular SAP strategy. Some cloud providers force customers to modernize on S/4HANA during migration. AWS encourages customers to pursue the strategy that works best for them and will never force S/4HANA modernization as part of migration. Regardless of a customer's decision, AWS provides a number of programs and tools that streamline SAP migration to the cloud. Weigh the pros and cons of modernizing on SAP S/4HANA AWS SAP Migration Acceleration Program (SAP MAP) SAP MAP provides consulting support, training, and services credits to reduce the risk of migrating to the cloud, build a strong operational foundation, and help offset the initial cost of migrations. It includes a migration methodology for executing legacy migrations in a methodical way as well as robust set of tools to automate and accelerate common SAP migration scenarios. AWS Launch Wizard for SAP A wizard-based experience that helps customers increase their operational efficiency by providing built-in prescriptive guidance for sizing and provisioning of EC2 clusters for SAP workloads. AWS Quick Starts for SAP Rapidly deploy SAP landscapes with architectures that follow AWS best practices for security and high availability. AWS Quick Starts are deployment accelerators, with offerings for SAP HANA, S/4HANA, NetWeaver, and Business One for HANA. This robust set of migration offerings is only one of the reasons that customers choose run their SAP workloads on AWS.