SAP on Alibaba Cloud
- Debajit Banerjee
- Aug 17
- 3 min read
Alibaba Cloud is a trusted partner of SAP for 5+ years, offering the reliability and security that various business enterprises demand. But recently, there were some interesting announcements from both.
Alibaba Cloud provides a three-tiered architecture (IaaS, PaaS, MaaS) with services like Elastic Compute Service (ECS) for running SAP applications. This includes support for various SAP solutions like SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP HANA. Alibaba Cloud is a certified hyperscaler for SAP workloads, enabling deployment of SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions. In 27-May-2025, during SAPPHIRE in Madrid, Spain, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced that SAP has entered into a strategic partnership with Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988) to accelerate cloud transformation. As part of the collaboration, Alibaba Group will leverage SAP Cloud ERP Private for its enterprise infrastructure, as well as a joint go-to-market strategy aimed at delivering accelerated value for customers worldwide. The collaboration marks the next chapter in Alibaba’s and SAP’s longstanding partnership focused on enhancing operational efficiency and accelerating innovation for joint customers. A core component of this strategic alliance is a joint go-to-market initiative. Under the collaboration initially focused on the China market, enterprises will be able to implement SAP Integrated Business Planning and embark on the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP journeys. It is also planned to be rolled out in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With Alibaba Group as a certified hyperscaler for SAP software workloads, Chinese enterprises will also be able to deploy SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions, empowering them with scalable, more secure and intelligent solutions tailored to local business needs.
Here are some basic overview of SAP on Alibaba Cloud for easy understanding.
SAP on Alibaba Cloud at a glance - help.sap.com | It describes information on supported SAP Applications, instances, OS environments, databases and associated SAP Notes. | |
SAP on Alibaba Cloud | Alibaba Cloud is a trusted partner of SAP, offering the reliability and security that every business demands. The mature service infrastructure and platforms of Alibaba Cloud, when combined with the world-leading applications and Database Management System (DBMS) services of SAP, can help to simplify the overall IT infrastructure and accelerate the digital transformation of the enterprise. | |
SAP Certified H/W or Instances | Alibaba Cloud has SAP certifications for ECS instances, databases, SAP Netweaver based applications, and more applications. | |
SAP HANA Deployment Guide | This deployment guide describes how to plan and deploy the SAP HANA system on Alibaba Cloud ECS, including how to configure the ECS instances, block storage, network, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating system. This guide includes the best practices from Alibaba Cloud and SAP. | |
SAP Netweaver Planning Guide | It is a basic planning guide to deploy SAP Netweaver on Alibaba Cloud. | |
SAP Netweaver Implementation Guide | This document is applicable to SAP Netweaver implementation on Alibaba Cloud. | |
SAP HANA High Availability Deployment Guide | It describes how to deploy SAP HANA high availability (HA) within a zone of Alibaba Cloud. | |
Cross-Zonal SAP HANA High Availability Deployment Guide using SUSE | It describes SAP HANA High Availability Cross-Zone Solution on Alibaba Cloud with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications. | |
SAP HANA Scale-out Deployment Guide | This document is applicable to SAP HANA scale-out deployment on Alibaba Cloud. | |
SAP System High Availability Environment Maintenance Guide | This document is applicable to SAP system applications based on SUSE HAE 12 cluster deployment or SAP HANA ECS instances that require operational tasks such as ECS instance type upgrades or downgrades, SAP application/database upgrades, routine maintenance of primary/standby nodes, and pre- and post-processing instructions for scenarios like node anomalies and switches. | |
SAP ASE HA/DR – Extended Edition | It describes how to deploy SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) HADR – Extended Edition. | |
IBM DB2 for SAP Planning Guide | This document describes the planning for IBM DB2 for SAP on Alibaba Cloud. | |
IBM DB2 for SAP Deployment Guide | This document is applicable to IBM DB2 deployment for SAP on Alibaba Cloud. | |
IBM DB2 for SAP High Availability and Disaster Recovery | This document describes the deployment of IBM DB2 with HA/DR for SAP on Alibaba Cloud. | |
SAP MaxDB Deployment Guide | This document is applicable to SAP MaxDB Database deployment for SAP on Alibaba Cloud. | |
Backup and Archiving on Alibaba Cloud | Alibaba Cloud provides rich and stratified products and services to help the business properly plan and execute highly available and durable data backup, low-cost and high-performance massive data archiving, and secure and compliant storage-level disaster recovery. |
Here I am attaching a whitepaper on Integration of SAP Application Data with Alibaba Cloud for your reference. Although this whitepaper is quite old - released on 2020 - but still having some basic relevance. One can download this whitepaper from here.
Great one Deba!! Thankyou👍