SAP BTP Architecture
SAP BTP Architecture
BTP
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
Infrastructure
The infrastructure layer of a region is either provided by SAP or by one of SAP's
Instrastructure as a Service (IaaS) partners Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure,
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Alibaba Cloud.
Environments
Environments constitute the actual platform as a service offering of SAP BTP that allows for
the development and administration of business applications. Each environment comes
equipped with the tools, technologies, and runtimes that you need to build applications.
Services
Services enable, facilitate, or accelerate the development of business applications and other
platform services on SAP BTP. You find all available services in the SAP Discovery Center.
Data
Your business and application data is managed through services like the SAP HANA Cloud
service or the SAP Datasphere service.
Applications
The business applications that you deploy in a region build on top of, and make use of, the
layers underneath.
The entitlements and quotas that have been purchased for a global account have to be assigned to
the individual subaccounts.
Note
A quota represents the numeric quantity that defines the maximum allowed consumption of a
resource. In other words, how much of a service plan you're entitled to use.
A service plan is the representation of the costs and benefits for a given variant of a particular
service. For instance, a database may be configured with various "T-shirt sizes", each of
which is a different service plan.
The terms global accounts and subaccounts and their meaning in scope of SAP BTP are not
referring to user accounts or user management.
Each environment comes equipped with specific tools, technologies, and runtimes that you need to
build applications. So a multi-environment subaccount is your single address to host a variety of
applications and offer diverse development options. One advantage of using different environments
in one subaccount is that you only need to manage users, authorizations, and entitlements once
per subaccount, and thus, grant more flexibility to your developers.
The figure Entity Relationships Between Global Account, Directory, and Subaccounts depicts
the relationship between a global account, its directories, subaccounts, environments, regions,
entitlements, and quotas for feature set B.
A subaccount is specified for the environment Neo or for the environment Multi-Environment
(KYMA, ABAP, and Cloud Foundry environment).
Note
The Neo environment of SAP BTP was the first version of the SAP BTP available on the
market after the product launch.
The Neo environment lets you develop HTML5, Java, and SAP HANA extended application
services (SAP HANA XS) applications. You can also use the UI Development Toolkit for
HTML5 (SAPUI5) to develop rich user interfaces for modern web-based business
applications.
If you still have an SAP BTP, Neo environment, a migration may be suitable for you. Before starting
to migrate your scenario, get in touch with our SAP BTP migration experts to create an individual
road map for your transition. For further information please refer
to: https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/migrating-from-neo-environment-to-multi-cloud-foundation-cloud-
foundry-and-kyma/migrating-from-neo-environment-to-multi-cloud-foundation-cloud-foundry-and-
kyma