Why SAP on Azure

Run your SAP applications in a robust and reliable cloud environment which features the broadest global footprint, largest compliance portfolio, embedded security, enterprise-grade SLAs and industry-leading support. Azure supports the largest SAP HANA workloads of any hyperscale cloud provider.

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Trust a partnership built on decades of experience

In 2017, Microsoft and SAP expanded an alliance lasting more than two decades by enabling Microsoft to use SAP S4/HANA to enhance financial analysis and SAP to migrate critical SAP S/4HANA systems to Azure. The result is a joint ecosystem which brings unique insights and rich product integration to help make the most of running SAP solutions and applications in the cloud—accelerating your performance, productivity and innovation with seamless enterprise-class support.

Meet your compliance and security need

Protect your data with the most comprehensive set of compliance offerings of any cloud service provider. Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of trust, transparency, certifications and regulatory compliance, helping you address your security and privacy needs through a broad suite of cloud products and services, including Azure Security Center, Azure monitoring and management applications and single sign-on capabilities with Azure Active Directory.

Increase your scale and performance with SAP-certified infrastructure

Get high-performance SAP-certified infrastructure for SAP HANA applications such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP NetWeaver-based applications such as SAP Business Suite or ECC on AnyDB. Run your SAP applications with your choice of database, including SAP HANA, SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM Db2 and SAP ASE, on your choice of operating system, including Windows, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux.

On-demand Azure Virtual Machines certified for SAP

Get SAP-certified on-demand virtual machines (VMs) for SAP NetWeaver applications, such as SAP Business Suite, as well as SAP HANA-based applications, such as SAP S/4HANA.

• Spin up your SAP infrastructure on-demand in minutes, instead of weeks on-premises.
• Bring your own SAP licences to the cloud and be fully supported.
• Save 40 to 75 percent for dev-test workloads with Azure automation such as DevTest Labs.
• M-Series Virtual Machines are SAP HANA-certified with RAM sizes up to 4 TB.
• Simplify management with built-in services for backup and disaster recovery.

Run SAP HANA on Azure Large Instance configurations

Get purpose-built SAP HANA infrastructure called SAP HANA Large Instances with high-performance compute, storage and network supporting up to 20 TB RAM on a single node.

• Get SAP HANA TDI-certified instances with memory from 768 GB to 20 TB.
• Certified for SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW on SAP HANA and Suite on SAP HANA.
• Bring industry-leading performance with high-performance NFS storage and networking.
• Use cutting-edge Intel Xeon E7-8890 V4 processors.
• Get built-in support for backups through storage snapshots, high availability and disaster recovery and scale-out configurations.
• Provide 99.99-percent SLA for high-availability pairs and 99.9-percent SLA for a single node.