New and expanded partnerships within the Cloud Wars Top 10 driven by GenAI innovation just keep coming. Now, AWS and SAP say they’re expanding their collaboration with a focus on using GenAI and other technologies to maximize the benefits of RISE with SAP, the AI-powered cloud ERP solution, on AWS cloud services.
“AWS was the first cloud provider certified to support the SAP portfolio and today, thousands of enterprise companies run SAP solutions on AWS to get the most out of their mission-critical applications,” said Matt Garman, incoming CEO of AWS. “Now, AWS and SAP are making it faster and easier for companies to apply generative AI to their core business data to become more efficient, responsive and sustainable.”
Customer Impact
The collaboration focuses on three core areas: easy adoption of RISE with SAP on AWS, enhanced performance of SAP cloud workloads, and embedded GenAI capabilities.
SAP customers can now benefit from some of the most powerful large language models (LLMs) available, with Amazon Bedrock services providing access to models including the Anthropic Claude 3 model family and Amazon Titan. This is made possible through integration with the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core, enabling users to access high-performance LLMs and foundational models, as well as developing apps using these models along with their proprietary data.
Regarding future AI developments at SAP, the expanded partnership with AWS includes a commitment to use its chips to train models for new business applications. SAP already uses AWS Graviton3 chips to support its cloud-native, in-memory database, SAP HANA Cloud, and will introduce next-gen Graviton4 chips for improved efficiency and performance.
Beyond this, SAP will use AWS’s dedicated AI and ML chips, AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia, to train and build SAP Business AI offerings. The chips will enable SAP to speed up development while maintaining accuracy and reliability.
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RISE with SAP on AWS will also be supercharged by the introduction of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances providing up to 32TiB of memory per instance.
Finally, From Amazon’s perspective, the company has chosen to deploy RISE with SAP to support the development of Project Kuiper, the company’s satellite broadband network.
With the project set to provide hundreds of millions of people with affordable internet access, the addition of RISE with SAP will enable the Project Kuiper team to focus on the complexities and nuances of the endeavor and not the backend IT infrastructure to manage it.
Closing thoughts
“Partnerships like this collaboration with AWS are critical as we embed generative AI solutions across our ERP applications so that customers can drive innovation at an accelerated pace,” said Christian Klein, SAP’s CEO.
“In addition to delivering modern cloud ERP to our joint customers, we are excited to support Amazon on their own transformation journey as they adopt RISE with SAP for pioneering areas such as Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite initiative intended to increase global broadband access.”
Both SAP and AWS are benefiting from access to products that can make a significant impact on their business. It’s the technology that is the star here, and customers’ drive for innovation that is the catalyst for collaboration.
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