SAP Private Link service on AWS is now Generally Available (GA)!

[gowrisankar_m2]

After the successful launch of the SAP Private Link service on AWS beta in November 2022, we are delighted to announce that the SAP Private Link service on AWS is now Generally Available (GA)!  

You can now access selected services created in your own AWS account via a private network connection from SAP BTP in the following regions:  

• eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) 


• us-east-1 (N. Virginia) 


• sa-east-1 (São Paulo) 


• ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) 


• ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) 


• ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) 


• ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) 


• ca-central-1 (Canada)

SAP Private Link service currently supports connections from SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime and certain services on top to AWS Endpoint Service for the most common load balancer + VM scenario with e.g. SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP running on the VM, as well as the scenario of connecting to AWS native services, in particular to:  

• Simple Storage Service (S3) 


• Simple Queue Service (SQS) 


• Simple Notification Service (SNS) 


• Simple Email Service (SES) 


• Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora Data API


• Amazon IOT Core 


• Amazon Lamda 


• Amazon Key Management Service (KMS)

Visit the official documentation for more information on how to use these services: Consume AWS Services in SAP BTP.  

Important Links,

• Official documentation   


• Tutorial: Setup the SAP Private Link service in SAP BTP  


• Tutorial: Connect SAP Private Link service to AWS VPC Endpoint Service using the Cloud Foundry CLI   


• Other blog posts related to the SAP Private Link service   

What to expect Next? 

• Support of additional scenarios and list of supported services, in particular  


• Out of the box support for additional SAP BTP services and environments (BTP Kyma, BTP ABAP)  


• Connections initiated from within AWS to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime or other SAP BTP services  


• Support of additional native AWS services  


• GCP as IaaS provider and the corresponding GCP Private Service Connect service  

Disclaimer: Please understand that SAP does not commit to, promise to, and is under no legal obligation to deliver these features in the future. This list of features may be changed or withdrawn by SAP at any time for any reason without notice, and business decisions should not be based on this.  

Conclusion  

SAP Private Link service on AWS is now Generally Available and with that ready for prime time use in production. Furthermore, the service is now available in many new SAP BTP regions.  

Get started now with the SAP Private Link service! We’re eager to receive your feedback!  

 

[Sven_Knöpfler]

gowrisankar.m2 : Thanks for this blog. Just curious, are there any plans to offer the private link for SAP Datasphere or SAP Analytics Cloud anytime soon?

[gowrisankar_m2]

sven.knpfler4 Yes, supporting this is on our roadmap, but unfortunately, we cannot provide a fixed timeline yet.

[ogoulart]

Why GCP is being mentioned on "What to expect next" of an new AWS Service?

[Murali_Shanmu]

Awesome news.

Can RISE customers build extensions on SAP BTP connected to their S/4HANA system via a Private Link (without the need for Cloud Connector)?

[Murali_Shanmu]

Must be a typo 🙂

[MustafaBensan]

Regardless, it would be good to know if a SAP Private Link service is going to be offered for GCP, as this is the only missing hyperscaler now that we have SAP Private Link for Azure and AWS.

[ShaikAzmathulla]

The information in this blog is very helpful.

[gowrisankar_m2]

The message here is that we also want to support the SAP Private Link service on GCP, which is planned next.

[gowrisankar_m2]

Exactly 🙂

[anirban-sap]

Yes. Please see the use case described in this repo: https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-build-resilient-apps/ and Step 4 on setting up SAP Private Link for both Microsoft Azure and AWS

[Murali_Shanmu]

Excellent. Thank you

[AlexDong]

hi Gowrisankar, thanks for sharing.

Some customers are sensitive to put data on public cloud (e.g. BTP Integration Suite) and they keep asking can the SAAS be kept private like SAP S/4 HANA private edition. Can i understand, via SAP private link, they can achieve such purpse?

Thanks!

Alex

[gowrisankar_m2]

Hi Alex,

Private ingress connectivity is currently a work in progress on our side. Once we roll out this feature, it should be possible to consume BTP SAAS solutions privately. We do not have a timeline yet for this feature.

Thanks, Gowrisankar

[MaximilianoColm]

Hi Gowrisankar,

Fantastic news that from an app running on SAP BTP CF we can directly access to an on-prem system running to a hyper scale for example AWS using the private link, but is there any plan to have direct connection between the app running on SAP BTP and SAP BTP itself, for example to connect to the HANA DB, html5 repository, destination service, etc., as far I know those connections are going via internet, please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Kind Regards.

Max.