The enterprise resource planning (ERP) landscape is experiencing a revolutionary shift toward cloud-native solutions and a simplified approach to buy, implement, and manage these solutions with greater speed and security. At the forefront of this transformation, SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to strengthen our strategic partnership, to help organizations of all sizes innovate faster and run their mission-critical business processes in the cloud.
At AWS re:Invent 2024, AWS and SAP SE jointly announced the availability of SAP Cloud ERP (erstwhile known as GROW with SAP) on AWS Marketplace. Five months later at SAP Sapphire 2025, SAP and AWS jointly launched SAP Business Technology Platform Services on AWS Marketplace, and SAP launched SAP Business Suite – a product offering that includes SAP Could ERP(GROW) and Private (RISE) – as well as other offerings from SAP. As part of this strategic shift, both GROW and RISE evolved from products into guided implementation frameworks or ‘journeys’ designed to provide customers with structured pathways to adopt Cloud ERP as well as other Business Suite products.
In this blog, we will discuss the benefits of procuring SAP Business Suite and SAP BTP through AWS Marketplace including simplification of vendor onboarding and billing, and improvements in governance and compliance.
- Simplified Procurement Process – AWS Marketplace streamlines how you buy and manage SAP applications. Instead of dealing with multiple vendors and bills, you get everything through your existing AWS account – one bill, one set of terms, and one platform to manage it all. Your existing AWS commitments can count toward SAP purchases, maximizing your technology budget. You can apply your AWS spending commitments toward retiring Private Pricing spend commitment (PPA), maximizing the value of your AWS investments and simplifying budget management. This simplified approach typically reduces procurement time from weeks to days, letting your team focus on what matters most – running your business.
- Trusted Guidance through Partners – Specialized SAP and AWS partners can help you to implement S/4HANA Cloud Edition in your organization. At this moment we are working with Cognitus, Navigator, NTT Data, Syntax, Seidor, Navisite, AnswerThink, Bramasol, Vision33 and VistaVu as launch partners on AWS. More partners to be added as the program matures.
Let’s look at the benefits of SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Technology Platform:
- Accelerated deployment of SAP Cloud ERP – Once customers subscribe to the product from AWS Marketplace, they benefit from a faster implementation and go-live of new SAP S/4HANA environment. Time-to-value is 40-60% faster, and implementation is much quicker than on-premises ERP applications. Customers can expedite rollout and go-live faster with pre-built processes, guided tools, and methodologies, following the best practice guidance provided by SAP and AWS. SAP Cloud ERP also includes:
• Embedded AI agents for intelligent automation
• Pre-configured industry best practices
• AWS infrastructure optimization, including Graviton processors
• Seamless integration with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) - Integration Capabilities – SAP Cloud ERP can be extended seamlessly with available SAP BTP services and a full suite of 200+ AWS services to build a complete end-to-end solution. A key benefit lies in the solution’s ability to leverage the AWS global backbone network, ensuring that all data traffic remains within AWS’s highly secure and optimized infrastructure. By keeping traffic within the AWS network, organizations benefit from enhanced data protection, reduced latency, and improved performance, while maintaining compliance with stringent security requirements. This design offers organizations to improve their security posture, while delivering the performance benefits of AWS’s world-class infrastructure.
- Extend with low/no-code tools: There are currently 75+BTP services running on AWS for customers to integrate SAP Cloud ERP and build extensions. Customers can leverage 750+ prebuilt integrations, and 700+ open APIs and 6000+ reusable (CDS) views as the virtual data model that SAP offers for modernization and building custom solutions without extensive coding, transformation or complex integration effort.
- Easy way to Modernize and use AWS and SAP GenAI: SAP Cloud ERP, will make it easier for customers to streamline business operations to better serve their end users and build secure generative AI applications by combining their SAP data with AWS industry-leading generative AI services, such as Amazon Bedrock (available through SAP generative AI hub on SAP BTP), which offers a broad selection of foundation models from leading AI companies. These capabilities will complement Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot, which works across business applications from SAP.
- Scalability and Performance: Customers gain scalability, high availability, and security to grow their business without worrying about hardware limitations, while also offering localized solutions to meet regional needs. They can also take advantage from the latest innovations brought by AWS to scale based on their needs and achieve best in CPU price class performance while conserving energy.
How can customers innovate with SAP Cloud ERP, BTP and AWS?
In the modern enterprise landscape, organizations running SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud often struggle to balance the need for customization with SAP’s clean core principle. The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) has emerged as the cornerstone solution for this challenge, enabling organizations to build powerful side-by-side extensions while maintaining the integrity of their core ERP system.
By utilizing SAP BTP, SAP users and SAP developers can create side-by-side extensions using the language of their choice (including ABAP, Java, Node.js, or Python) while keeping the SAP core clean. CloudFoundry supports Java, Node.js and Python, while Kyma supports serverless functions with Node.js and Python or microservices on any cross-platform programming language.
What makes this approach particularly compelling is the unprecedented freedom it offers development teams in choosing their technology stack. Developers can leverage either ABAP Cloud, utilizing the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP), or opt for Java development with Spring Boot or JavaScript and the Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP). This flexibility allows organizations to maximize their existing talent pool while selecting the most appropriate technology for each specific use case.
Innovation use cases overview:
Use Case#1 – Intelligent document processing: Amazon Textract offers a powerful solution for automating accounts payable processes in SAP S/4HANA by automatically extracting data from incoming supplier invoices. This capability can be further enhanced by integrating Amazon Comprehend, which provides entity recognition and sentiment analysis, offering users valuable additional context. The processed data is then seamlessly posted back to SAP S/4HANA using standard OData APIs. This intelligent document processing approach is versatile enough to be applied to similar processes across various industries. Importantly, the entire solution can be implemented as an extension within the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) environment, ensuring smooth integration with existing SAP systems and workflows.
Use Case#2 – Data-to-Value – Advanced analytics for real time data insights – Organizations can develop extensions that seamlessly export S/4HANA business data to Amazon Redshift for sophisticated analysis. The integration can utilize AWS Glue for ETL processes, enabling real-time data synchronization between systems. Java developers might gravitate toward Spring Boot for building these integrations, while ABAP developers can achieve the same results using the AWS SDK for ABAP, demonstrating the platform’s versatility.
These use cases and architectural approaches deliver significant benefits in terms of business agility and technical flexibility. Development teams can rapidly create and deploy new functionality without affecting the core system, significantly reducing the risk associated with customizations.
The cloud-native nature of these extensions provides inherent scalability, allowing each component to scale independently based on demand. This approach ensures easier maintenance through its clean core, which facilitates smooth S/4HANA upgrades without the complexity of managing custom modifications. It also enables rapid delivery of innovative solutions that meet specific business requirements. Furthermore, the integration with AWS services enables organizations to leverage cutting-edge cloud capabilities while maintaining a pay-per-use cost model for both BTP and AWS services.
The freedom of choice in development technologies, combined with the power of cloud-native services, creates an environment where technical teams can focus on delivering business value rather than managing technical debt. This paradigm shift in SAP development is enabling organizations to achieve greater business agility while ensuring long-term sustainability of their SAP investments.
Summary
The availability of SAP Cloud ERP Business Suite and BTP on AWS Marketplace marks a significant milestone in enterprise cloud solutions. This offering combines SAP’s industry-leading ERP capabilities with AWS’s robust infrastructure, 200+ AWS services, best-in-class large language models availability through Amazon Bedrock delivering a comprehensive, secure, scalable and innovative solutions that accelerate digital transformation while simplifying procurement and management. Start reaching out to AWS and aforementioned AWS for SAP Partners to start assessing your existing IT landscape and where SAP Cloud ERP can be the best fit. Engage us to learn more on SAP application modernization with SAP BTP and AWS services.
Check out SAP Business Suite Packages, AWS Marketplace page for SAP Business Suite packages and AWS Marketplace page for SAP BTP (AWS login required).
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