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Update: Nov 16, 2013: I was notified by the SAP CAL Product Owner that accessing SAP CAL software deployed in AWS using non-CAL software is a violation of SAP CAL Developer License Agreement. I have modified this blog to remove all references to SAP CAL.
Nov 10, 2013: Original Blog published.
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AWS - Amazon Web Services
SAP CAL -- SAP Cloud Appliance Library
I wrote a blog about using AWS Spot Instances when I took the openSAP class back in May-July 2013.
AWS console has improved since I wrote the above blog -- some of the tasks that could only be performed using CLI (Command Line Interface) could now be performed using the console. Hence the need for this blog.
Step I: Create the SAP HANA Developer Edition Instance in AWS:
You may deploy the SAP HANA Developer Edition to AWS from this blog page: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28294
You will see the Instance below (SAP HANA Server) in AWS.
EBS Volumes:
Step II: Create Images (AMI - Amazon Machine Image):
You may stop the HANA instance before taking the image to reduce your AWS charges.
Step III: Terminate the AWS HANA normal instance:
This will stop AWS from charging for the instances and associated EBS Volumes.
Step IV: Create Spot Instances:
You can create a new key pair, if you don't have one already for the step below.
Display EBS volumes and take a screenshot of the page and save it -- this is needed later in Step VIII.
Step V: Allocate and Assign Elastic IP for the Spot Instances:
[Could not fit all my Images into one blog. Continued in this blog: http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/11/11/using-aws-spot-instances-with-sap-cal--part-ii]