It took six months to migrate all four modules of AboitizLand’s SAP system onto AWS, which was completed ahead of schedule. Aboitiz started with small Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance sizes, only scaling up when monitoring revealed more compute resources were needed. It also uses AWS Compute Optimizer to allocate SAP infrastructure in a cost-effective manner, scaling up and down based on actual consumption.
“We can quickly check whether we are overprovisioned and need to scale down some instances, which is something we could never do on premises,” Ang Ti says. “The advantage of running SAP in the AWS Cloud is that we can monitor application traffic and have the flexibility to properly size our infrastructure.”
When SAP was running on premises, users complained two to three times a month about varying amounts of downtime. However, Aboitiz’s IT team had little to no visibility into storage consumption to prevent such outages. By using Amazon CloudWatch to proactively monitor resource utilization and keep SAP running nearly 24/7, teams spend just five minutes monitoring activities each day, down from one hour on premises.