Pick the path before you pick the date.
Every SAP move to AWS is one of these three. Which one fits depends on how much of SAP you want to keep running yourself — and how close you are to the 2027 deadline.
| RISE with SAP on AWS | S/4HANA on your AWS account | Lift-and-shift ECC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | SAP runs the infrastructure and SAP Basis; you run the business processes | You (or Cloudstok) run everything on your own AWS account | Same as today, just on AWS instead of your data center |
| Licensing | One SAP subscription that bundles software, infrastructure and service | Bring your existing SAP licences; pay AWS for what you run | Keep your current ECC licences unchanged |
| Control | Less hands-on control, fewer things to manage | Full control of sizing, timing, backups and AWS services around SAP | Full control, but you're still on ECC |
| Best for | Teams that want SAP off their plate entirely | Teams with SAP skills in-house who want to use AWS data and AI on SAP data | Teams that need out of a data center now and will convert to S/4HANA later |
| 2027 deadline | Gets you to S/4HANA as part of the move | Gets you to S/4HANA as part of the move | Doesn't solve it on its own — plan the S/4HANA conversion as step two |
SAP ECC 6.0 mainstream maintenance ends 31 December 2027; SAP offers paid extended maintenance beyond that. RISE with SAP is now also sold as SAP Cloud ERP Private. Talk to us for the right path for your licences and landscape.
The whole landscape, not just the ERP.
SAP rarely lives alone. We move the production system and everything around it — so nothing gets left behind in the data center you're trying to leave.
The cloud SAP has run on the longest
and at the largest sizes.
Organisations have run SAP on AWS since 2008 — AWS was the first cloud provider certified for the SAP portfolio.
SLA for RISE with SAP workloads running on AWS.
Memory in a single SAP-certified EC2 U7i instance, for S/4HANA and BW/4HANA in production.
Once SAP is on AWS, its data can feed Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker and Athena, and ABAP developers can call AWS services directly with the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP.
Named a leader in SAP HANA infrastructure services by ISG five years running.
As AWS credits on your first year of AWS spend — roughly 8 months of AWS usage, free. We file the funding application with AWS for you.
The database moves fine. Everything attached to it doesn't.
SAP projects rarely fail on the infrastructure. They slip on the parts nobody inventoried — and we inventory those first.
Five phases, signed off one at a time.
The assessment is free and done before you commit to anything. Each phase after that ends with a deliverable you approve before the next one starts.
AWS migration funding (MAP) for SAP is approved by AWS case by case and isn't guaranteed. “Up to 65%” and “roughly 8 months” assume credits of 65% of your first-year AWS spend (65% × 12 months ≈ 7.8 months); we confirm what you qualify for during the assessment. The Migration Readiness Accelerator is offered by AWS and SAP for RISE with SAP on AWS customers.
2027 is closer than your next SAP project plan.
Tell us what you run today. You'll get your path, a sizing and the AWS funding you qualify for — no obligation.