AWS Systems Manager for SAP now supports SAP HANA scale-out deployments

Until today, customers running their SAP on AWS using the scale-out architecture couldn’t rely on SSM for SAP to automate operations such as backups, Start/Stop and credentials rotations. We are excited to share that AWS Systems Manager for SAP (SSM for SAP) now supports SAP HANA scale-out deployments. You can now register a multi-node SAP HANA system as a single application and manage it with the same capabilities you already use for single-node systems: SAP HANA backup through AWS Backup, application-aware start and stop, and credential updates. With the updated feature, customers can use SSM for SAP, which is an automation capability that gives you an application-centric way to operate your SAP workloads on AWS. Instead of treating your SAP landscape as a collection of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, and file systems, you register your SAP application once and SSM for SAP discovers its components, hosts, and the AWS resources behind them. From there it keeps that picture current and uses it as the foundation for day-to-day operations. Once an application is registered, you can protect its SAP HANA database wit...