Introduction: Why Evolve from Infrastructure to Innovation with SAP on AWS?

In this chapter, we will introduce the concept of evolving beyond infrastructure hosting to achieve innovation with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many organizations are migrating their SAP workloads to AWS as a part of their digital transformation strategy, and they are already seeing substantial business benefits in terms of reduced operating costs, increased flexibility, and improved resiliency. But is this “real” digital transformation? Migrating your SAP workloads to AWS is just the starting step. Digital transformation is not just about hosting on AWS to get infrastructure flexibility; it’s all about changing the core business model, redefining business processes, and changing IT from just a cost center to the driver of innovation for the business. You can achieve all of these objectives by taking advantage of native AWS services and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) services powered by AWS.