Domain 4: Operation and maintenance of SAP workloads on AWS

4.1 Monitor the underlying infrastructure of SAP environments on AWS for performance, availability, and security.

• Performance monitoring of AWS services for SAP
  • Best Practice 1.2 – Implement infrastructure monitoring for SAP
  • AWS provides multiple native services to monitor and manage your SAP environment. Services like CloudWatch and CloudTrail can be leveraged to monitor your underlying infrastructure and APIs respectively. CloudWatch provides ready-to-use KPIs for CPU, disk utilization and also allows you to create custom metrics if your specific KPIs that you would like to monitor. CloudTrail allows you to log the API calls made to your AWS infrastructure components.
  •  SAP monitoring: A serverless approach using Amazon CloudWatch
• Availability monitoring of AWS services for SAP
  • Best Practice 1.8 – Use automated response and recovery techniques to react to monitoring alerts
  • Best Practice 1.1 – Implement prerequisites for monitoring SAP on AWS 
  • AWS Data Provider for SAP 
  • AWS Data Provider Troubleshooting
  • SAProuter and SAP Solution Manager 
  • SAP Support Access

4.2 Manage the data protection of SAP applications by using AWS native services.

• RTO and RPO
  • SAP on AWS: Build for availability and reliability
• Backup and recovery strategies for SAP databases and applications
  • AWS Backint Agent FAQs
• Protection of data at rest and data in transit (for example, data encryption)
  • Best Practice 8.2 – Encrypt data in transit
  • Best Practice 8.3 – Secure your data recovery mechanisms to protect against threats

• Network traffic logging, monitoring, threat detection, and analytics
  • Best Practice 7.4 – Implement logging and reporting for user access and authorization changes and events
• IAM
  • Check IAM Policy troubleshooting and how to read IAM policy Json

4.3 Perform routine and proactive maintenance activities for SAP applications on AWS.

• Patch management of different operating systems, SAP applications, and databases
• Downtime management of SAP systems on AWS
• Basics of Linux and Windows clustering
• Architectures and administration for high availability and disaster recovery
  • sap Failure scenarios

4.4 Review and optimize the architecture of SAP environments on AWS on a regular basis.

• AWS cost and usage monitoring tools (for example, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Pricing Calculator)
• Storage configurations and utilization monitoring for SAP workloads on AWS
• EC2 instance sizing for SAP applications and databases