Capgemini to support SAP applications on Amazon's cloud

May 26, 2011, 6:55 AM — Consultancy Capgemini's North American business will offer support to enterprises that want to run SAP applications in Amazon Web Services' cloud, the company said in a joint statement with Amazon on Thursday.

The consultancy has as well created what it calls a Rapid Cloud Workshop, which lets users launch SAP pilots, previously going live, on Amazon's cloud.

The support push comes on the heels of the announcement that users of SAP's BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment products can run those applications in Amazon's cloud. That news came out last week at SAP's Sapphire Now conference.

At the moment a large chunk of Amazon's business comes from people loading up servers for relatively short times to do testing, which means it has a fairly unpredictable load. Standing loads mean Amazon gets a better utilization of its hardware, however it has to be offered at a lower cost than current pricing for it to make sense to enterprises, Bradshaw said.

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