Most readers would know that setting up SAP Cloud Connector (SAPCC) is the first step to connect your SAP system to a wide range of innovations in the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP). In this blog post, I am going to show how to deploy this from SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

Let’s get started.

Sign up for a trial in SAP Cloud Platform

In case you have not heard, SAP announced the extension of SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) trial to 12 months. I am sure many SAP developers would share my excitement and would be eager to start experimenting. All you need to do is access the free trial here and sign-in using your S-user ID.

Here I am selecting the Europe (Frankfurt) – AWS region.

That’s how simple it is! I’ve got access to my 365 days trial.

Remember to note down your subaccount ID. This will be needed for later to set up the connection in SAP cloud connector.

Deploy SAP Cloud Connector using SAP Business Application Studio

Let’s add SAP Business Application Studio subscription to subaccount. Go to Subscriptions and search for business applications.

Click on the application and create a Dev Space

We are going to call this “saponaws” and click create dev space.

Click on Terminal and then select New Terminal.

Let’s run a couple of commands to see what’s under the hood. I ran lsblk, lscpu, lsmem and uname and it showed a powerful machine under the hood with 8 vCPU and 32GiB of RAM and 600 GB of disk. This is certainly a more powerful machine than my laptop!

Also, the operating system is running Debian, which is a really awesome open source project and I am delighted SAP is using it.

For the latest version of the AWS CLI, use the following command block:

$ cd /home/user
$ mkdir -p /home/user/local/bin /home/user/local/aws-cli
$ curl “https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip” -o “awscliv2.zip”
$ unzip awscliv2.zip
$ ./aws/install -i /home/user/local/aws-cli -b /home/user/local/bin

$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/local/bin
$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [********************]:
AWS Secret Access Key [********************]:
Default region name [us-east-2]:
Default output format [None]:

Once this is configured, we can start deploying the SAP cloud connector (SAPCC).

Git and node.js is already installed by default in BAS, so I can just go ahead and clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-for-sap-examples.git
$ cd aws-cdk-for-sap-examples/sap-cloud-connector
$ npm install

Then update /lib/AppConfig with the AWS account details
$ cdk synth
$ cdk deploy

Once the deployment finish, you can access it using the private IP address with default port number of 8443.

If you wish to login to the operating system you can use AWS Session manager in the AWS console. Just click the Connect button on the right hand side.

Select the Session Manager tab and click connect.

Clean up

Cleaning up the infrastructure is easy, just run the cdk destroy command.

Conclusion

This was a very pleasant experience for me, it’s a great IDE that allows me to deploy my infrastructure and my applications. This is just a glimpse of what BAS can do for your infrastructure and application development, and I will follow up with more blog on this topic, so stay tune to the SAP blog.

I hope you that you find this interesting and have as much fun as I did. Download the code and give it a try. If you have questions, feel free to reach out in the comment session. Start building today and have fun!