Course Introduction
AWS CloudFormation
Data Transfers with AWS DataSync
SAP HANA Data Tiering on AWS
The course is part of this learning path
** Not all content covered in the course introduction has been added to the course at this time. Additional content is scheduled to be added to this course in the future. **
In this section of the AWS Certified: SAP on AWS Specialty learning path, we introduce you to strategies for deploying your SAP applications and databases to AWS.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to use AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage resources in AWS
- Identify solution architectures for SAP deployments on AWS, including SAP HANA
- Describe various approaches for migrating on-premises SAP workloads to AWS
Prerequisites
The AWS Certified: SAP on AWS Specialty certification has been designed for anyone who has experience managing and operating SAP workloads. Ideally you’ll also have some exposure to the design and implementation of SAP workloads on AWS, including migrating these workloads from on-premises environments. Many exam questions will require a solutions architect level of knowledge for many AWS services. All of the AWS Cloud concepts introduced in this course will be explained and reinforced from the ground up.
Let me run through a couple of scenarios whereby you might choose to use AWS DataSync in a live environment.
Firstly one that will probably be familiar to a lot of people, and that is archiving data into cold storage. You may have been running your own on-premise storage services for a long time, and you have a lot of data residing in that storage architecture that would be better suited for cloud storage, in particular that of the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes, perhaps Glacier Deep Archive which is the cheapest storage solution provided by AWS primarily used for archiving rarely accessed data. By utilising AWS DataSync you can schedule a task to migrate this data from your own data centre into one of the Glacier storage services. This then ensures the durability of the data at a very low cost without the worry of maintaining that data yourself on-premises. This would also likely allow you to remove any old and perhaps legacy storage solution that you were using to store this data yourself.
The next use case might be related to the need to implement steady and active data migrations to Amazon S3, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server or EFS on a regular basis. Depending on your workload will depend on which service you are migrating to. You might want to consider this option for potential backup purposes or DR, for example you might migrate data you EFS for a standby file system in the cloud should your primary on-site file system suffer an outage.
Finally, let’s assume you are utilising a hybrid cloud solution, utilising services and solutions both on premises and in AWS. Occasionally you might need to harness the power and speed that many of the AWS services have, this is especially true if you are working with Machine learning or trying to process data sets in a short period of time. You could migrate the data into AWS for this additional processing and analysis and then migrate data back with any results into your Data Centre when your operations have completed.
Lectures
Introduction - What is AWS DataSync? - AWS DataSync Architecture - Summary
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