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What does the AWS Backint Agent change about how you back up SAP HANA to Amazon S3 compared with the conventional approach?

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An architect provisions slow st1 HDD for /hana/data on a production HANA node, reasoning that HANA runs in memory so disk speed is irrelevant. Why is this wrong?

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In a typical HANA EC2 storage layout, why is /backup placed on st1 (throughput-optimized HDD) while /hana/data and /hana/log sit on gp3 or io2 Block Express?

You've outgrown a single HANA host. What decides whether you go scale-up (bigger box) versus scale-out (more nodes) on AWS, and what extra dependency does scale-out drag in?

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