Running SAP on Azure: Five Lessons from a Migration
What went well, what surprised us, and what I would plan differently when moving an SAP landscape from on-premises to Microsoft Azure.
Practical guidance on SAP administration, cloud architecture and applied security — written to be useful on a busy day.
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What went well, what surprised us, and what I would plan differently when moving an SAP landscape from on-premises to Microsoft Azure.

A simple, repeatable access review process — who to involve, what to check and how to record decisions so auditors and engineers both trust it.

Return codes 8 and 12 explained, plus the habits that keep your transport routes clean from development to production.

A small Ansible playbook that patches servers in batches, reboots only when needed and reports what changed.

Why df -h is still the first thing I run on a system-health review, and how to read its output without missing the warning signs.

Cloud providers secure the platform, but configuration, access control and monitoring are still your job. Here is where the line sits.

A look at the shift toward treating cloud security as a business priority, and what it means for engineering roadmaps.

The ten checks I run every week on an SAP landscape to catch problems early — from background jobs to lock entries and dumps.

How to define, measure and report MTTR honestly — and why the average alone hides the incidents that matter most.