Automate Start and Stop of EC2 Instances & SAP Services on AWS
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Use Case-
- Pay as you go model
- On – Demand
- DEV / QA / Sandbox
Purpose
Customers running SAP Landscape Traditional / On-premises invest in Capex model and depend heavily on Human intervention when it comes to manage the physical hardware and data centers.
Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services compared to Traditional / On-premises and customers can pay on-demand / monthly based on utilization / number of hour’s services are used / running.
Sapphire Infotech helps customers to deploy / migrate SAP workloads on AWS Cloud and provides end to end Managed Services and also helps them to automate routine task which includes start and stop of SAP DEV / Test / Sandbox systems on AWS Cloud.
Solution overview
AWS is a leader in cloud automation and provides multiple options for programmatically scripting your resources to operate or scale them in a predictable and repeatable manner. You can execute scripts to automate SAP operations such as creating new SAP application servers, starting or stopping SAP applications, taking backups and snapshots, and building new instances from the ground up.
Here are some examples to illustrate how easy is it to automate start-stop existing SAP HANA Data Base server and services. These automation processes can be easily configured by following below steps.
Example 1: Function for starting the EC2 instance and SAP services.
Step 1: Create a lambda function to start the EC2 instance.
Step 2: Attach a role to lambda function that provide permission to start EC2 instance.
Step 3: Create a cloud watch rule to trigger a lambda function.
Step 4: Schedule the rule and select the target as Lambda function to start the EC2 instance on desired schedule.
Step 5 : Give and description for rule.
Step 6: Scheduled the job for the sap service to start with the system start.
Step 7: Verify that sap services are up and running.
Example 2: Function for stopping the EC2 instance and SAP services
Step 1: Create a lambda function to stop the EC2 instance.
Step 2: Attach a role to lambda function that provide permission to start EC2 instance.
Step 3: Create a cloud watch rule to trigger a lambda function.
Step 4: Schedule the rule and select the target as Lambda function to start the EC2 instance on desired schedule.
Step 5 : Give and description for rule.
Step 6: Scheduled the job for the sap service to stop
Conclusion
With this automation SAP Customers on AWS Cloud saves cost $$ by running Instances on-demand.
