Question

A manufacturing company runs a large on-premises SAP ECC application on a supported commercial database. Leadership wants to move to AWS within 6 months to exit a data center lease and prefers to minimize application code changes and business risk during the initial move. They plan to consider modernization to SAP S/4HANA later, after the migration stabilizes. The SAP Basis team is comfortable operating the OS and database themselves. Which migration approach best fits these constraints?

Accepted Answer

Rehost the SAP servers to EC2 instances that are certified for SAP workloads using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), preserving the existing OS, database, and application configuration.

Answer

Repurchase by immediately adopting a SaaS ERP offering and retiring the SAP ECC application before the data center lease expires.

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Refactor the application into microservices on containers and re-platform the database to Aurora before the data center exit deadline.

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Retain the SAP ECC workload on premises and only replicate backups to Amazon S3 until an S/4HANA project is funded.