AWS Core Services & Global Infrastructure for SAP

What is an Amazon VPC, and how do VPCs and subnets relate to regions and AZs?

What are the three EC2 placement group strategies, and do they change the EC2 SLA?

What are the main Amazon EBS volume types, and which is most common for SAP?

What are the AWS Elastic Load Balancer types and the OSI layer each works at?

What makes Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP notable for SAP?

What is the AWS Nitro system, and why are SAP-certified instances built on it?

What do the key EC2 instance-family letters mean (C, M, R, X, U, I, T)?

What is Amazon EBS, and what are its volume-level vs region-level SLAs?

What are the main Amazon EC2 purchase options, and which is unsuitable for SAP?

Which EC2 instance features matter most for SAP (termination protection, autorecovery, instance store, burstable)?

How must most SAP-certified databases be deployed on AWS, and what's the managed-service exception?

What are the two foundational SAP Notes for SAP on AWS, and which is the authoritative source of truth?

What key Amazon EBS features help SAP storage tuning and protection?

What is the difference between an AWS Region and an Availability Zone (AZ)?

What are key technical facts about Amazon S3 buckets and objects?

Beyond Regions and AZs, what edge/extension location types does AWS offer?

What is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and what are the options for SAP?

What component must be installed on every EC2 instance running SAP, and why?

What is Amazon EFS used for in SAP, and what's its key limitation?

How do you decode an Amazon EC2 instance name like r6i.8xlarge?

What is the core trade-off as you move from IaaS toward SaaS (with PaaS in between)?

What three types of boundaries does an AWS account define?

What are the EC2 compute SLAs at instance level vs region level?

What minimum AWS support plan is required to get support for an SAP environment?

Which compute options are supported and not supported for running SAP on EC2?

In the SaaS model, what is your responsibility, and which SAP products are SaaS?

When would you use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server in an SAP landscape?

What do the AWS EC2 networking features Elastic IP, ENI, enhanced networking, and ENA Express provide?

How do Amazon S3 storage classes trade off for SAP backup/archive data?

What are the main options for connecting an Amazon VPC to other VPCs, networks, and AWS services?

Which operating systems does AWS support for SAP workloads?

Why is capacity reservation (not a reserved instance) recommended for SAP DR scenarios?

In the IaaS model, what does the customer manage versus the cloud provider?

What is Availability Zone Independence (AZI), and how do staggered service updates extend it?