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SAP S/4HANA on the AWS Cloud
Quick Start Reference Deployment
September 2019
Kuang-Shih Howard Lee, Guilherme Felix, Patrick Leung, Shivansh Singh
Amazon Web Services
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Contents
Overview .................................................................................................................................... 2
SAP S/4HANA on AWS ......................................................................................................... 2
Cost and licenses .................................................................................................................... 3
Architecture ............................................................................................................................... 4
Planning the deployment .......................................................................................................... 6
Specialized knowledge ........................................................................................................... 6
AWS account .......................................................................................................................... 6
Technical requirements ......................................................................................................... 7
Deployment options ...............................................................................................................8
Deployment steps .................................................................................................................... 10
Step 1. Sign in to your AWS account .................................................................................... 10
Step 2. Download SAP S/4HANA software (Optional) ....................................................... 10
Step 3. Launch the Quick Start ............................................................................................ 15
Option 1: Parameters for deploying S/4HANA into a new VPC ...................................... 16
Option 2: Parameters for deploying S/4HANA into an existing VPC ............................. 22
Step 4. Test the deployment ................................................................................................ 27
Changing the Security Group Configuration ................................................................... 28
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SAP-Level access using SAP GUI .................................................................................... 28
OS-Level access using SSH ............................................................................................... 29
Security ................................................................................................................................... 30
Network Security .................................................................................................................. 31
Identity and Access Management (IAM) ............................................................................. 31
OS Security ........................................................................................................................... 31
Security Groups .................................................................................................................... 31
FAQ .......................................................................................................................................... 32
Send us feedback ..................................................................................................................... 35
Additional resources ............................................................................................................... 35
Document revisions ................................................................................................................. 36
This Quick Start was created by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Quick Starts are automated reference deployments that use AWS CloudFormation
templates to deploy key technologies on AWS, following AWS best practices.
Overview
This Quick Start reference deployment guide provides best practices and step-by-step
instructions for deploying SAP S/4HANA on the AWS Cloud.
This Quick Start is for SAP architects, system administrators, and IT technical professionals
who are responsible for architecture design and the deployment of S/4HANA workloads on
AWS.
SAP S/4HANA on AWS
This Quick Start offers two options:
 To provision a new AWS Cloud infrastructure and all its resources using AWS
CloudFormation, and a new S/4HANA system cluster that consists of a HANA database,
an ABAP SAP Central Services (ASCS) server, a Primary Application Server (PAS), and
optional Additional Application Server (AAS), with or without SAP software installed.
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 To deploy a new S/4HANA cluster, with the same configuration as in the first option, in
an existing AWS Cloud infrastructure.
Please know that we may share who uses AWS Quick Starts with the AWS partner that
collaborated with AWS on the content of the Quick Start.
Cost and licenses
You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this Quick Start
reference deployment. There is no additional cost for using the Quick Start.
The AWS CloudFormation templates for this Quick Start includes configuration parameters
that you can customize. Some of these settings, such as instance type, will affect the cost of
deployment. For cost estimates, see the pricing pages for each AWS service you will be
using. Prices are subject to change.
Tip   After you deploy the Quick Start, we recommend that you enable the AWS Cost
and Usage Report to track costs associated with the Quick Start. This report delivers
billing metrics to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket in your
account. It provides cost estimates based on usage throughout each month, and
finalizes the data at the end of the month. For more information about the report,
see the AWS documentation.
This deployment uses a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for SAP software. You must
already own licenses for SAP, and you must be authorized to download software from the
SAP Software Download Center (SWDC).
The Quick Start requires a subscription to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the S/4HANA instance. The Quick Start requires a
subscription to the SLES for SAP or the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AMI for the
HANA database. The AMIs are available from AWS Marketplace. Additional pricing, terms,
and conditions may apply. For instructions, see step 2 in the deployment section.
For the SAP S/4HANA deployment, this Quick Start launches the AMI for the supported
versions of the SLES or RHEL operating system you choose. The AMI includes the license
for the SLES and RHEL operating systems.
For the SAP HANA database deployment, the Quick Start launches the AMI for the
operating system you choose: SLES, SLES for SAP, or RHEL for SAP, RHEL for SAP with
High Availability (HA) and Update Services (US). The license cost for the operating system
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is included in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hourly price. There is an
additional software cost for SLES for SAP AMIs.
The following table summarizes the list of S/4HANA Quick Start–supported operating
systems and versions.
Operating system Supports Single-AZ
deployment?
Supports Multi-AZ
deployment?
 SLES 11 SP4
 SLES 12
 SLES 12 SP1
 SLES 12 SP3
 SLES 12 SP4
 SLES 15
Yes No
 SLES 12 SP2 for SAP*
 SLES 12 SP3 for SAP*
Yes Yes
 SLES 12 SP4 for SAP*
 SLES 15 for SAP*
Yes Yes
 RHEL 7.5 for SAP HANA Yes No
 RHEL 7.4 for SAP with HA and US
 RHEL 7.5 for SAP with HA and US
