With the rise of cloud computing, more and more businesses are turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their SAP systems. This provides a number of benefits, including increased scalability, security and cost savings. However, the cost savings are not guaranteed, and it can be difficult to determine the right-sized environment to ensure you are getting the most out of your investment.
Enter ETZ Global, a leading implementation partner for SAP on AWS. With our extensive experience and knowledge of both SAP and AWS, we are able to provide our clients with the right-sized environment that will ensure the highest level of performance, whilst keeping costs as low as possible.
Right-Sized Environment
The key to ensuring a right-sized environment is understanding your unique requirements and workloads. ETZ Global works with you to understand the specific needs of your SAP system and to determine the optimal combination of compute, storage, and network resources. This means you can be sure that you have the right resources in place to meet your current and future needs, without overpaying for resources you don’t need.
Cost Savings
In addition to right-sizing your environment, ETZ Global is able to ensure that costs are kept as low as possible. We do this by leveraging the following strategies:
- Use Spot Instances for non-critical workloads: By using spot instances, you can take advantage of AWS’s unused compute capacity, resulting in cost savings of up to 90%.
- Utilize auto-scaling groups: With auto-scaling groups, you can automatically add or remove resources based on the needs of your system, ensuring that you are always using the right amount of resources.
- Right-size instances: By right-sizing instances, you can ensure that you are only paying for the resources that you actually need.
- Use reserved instances: With reserved instances, you can save up to 75% compared to on-demand pricing by committing to a certain amount of compute capacity for a specified period of time.
- Utilize Amazon S3: By using Amazon S3 for storing backups, data archives and logs, you can save on storage costs and ensure that your data is always readily accessible.
- Cost optimization tools: ETZ Global leverages cost optimization tools such as AWS Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer to help our clients identify areas where they can save on costs.
- Utilize AWS native services: We prefer to use AWS native services, such as Amazon RDS, rather than third-party solutions, as this helps to keep costs down.
- Regional data transfer pricing: We take advantage of regional data transfer pricing and multiple Availability Zones to ensure that our clients are getting the best possible pricing for their data transfers.
- Monitoring and review: ETZ Global regularly monitors our clients’ resource utilization and provides regular reviews to help identify areas where they can save on costs.
- Tag and cost allocation strategy: We work with our clients to implement a tag and cost allocation strategy, which helps to ensure that costs are being allocated correctly and that everyone has a clear understanding of what is being spent on what.
With ETZ Global:
With ETZ Global as your implementation partner for SAP on AWS, you can be sure that you are getting the right-sized environment for your SAP system, whilst keeping costs as low as possible. Our extensive experience and knowledge of both SAP and AWS means that we can provide you with a solution that is tailored to your specific needs, providing you with the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your SAP system is in good hands.
