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#752: Modernizing SAP with AWS

January 19, 2026·33 min·2 clips

AWS's Gen AI agents can now log into SAP, read error emails, and automatically process invoices below a set dollar threshold.

Episode 752 keeps things practical. Simon brings on Tushar Srivastava, a Principal Account Manager at AWS, because Tushar has written Modernizing SAP with AWS, published by Springer Nature. The book sets the shape of the conversation. Instead of opening with a wall of technical concepts, Tushar describes a CIO who does not yet see how cloud fits SAP. That resistance gives the episode somewhere useful to start. The fictional SAP immersion day lets him bring in technical ideas when a customer would actually need them, which is a lot easier to follow than a dry migration lecture. Simon recognizes the customer journey and notes that technology is made of people. Tushar agrees, and the point lands without becoming a slogan. The choices stay plain. Customers can move existing SAP infrastructure to AWS while keeping the same solution and product set, or they can upgrade to S4HANA while migrating. The worry is plain too: will cloud give them the reliability and performance they already trust on premises? SAP has specific infrastructure expectations, so Tushar points to certified infrastructure and placement as reasons these projects need more care than generic cloud work. The conversation treats modernization as a confidence problem as much as a technical one. Tushar says readers have responded to the storytelling because it makes SAP modernization easier to relate to. Simon closes it out gently, leaving a measured AWS conversation about customer concern, migration choices, and the work of making cloud feel credible.

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A calm, practical SAP migration conversation that treats cloud adoption as a trust problem as much as a technical one.

An AWS Podcast conversation turns SAP modernization into a guided story rather than a straight technical briefing. Tushar Srivastava and Simon spend much of the discussion on the practical pressures that come with moving SAP to AWS: reliability, performance, certification,…

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