RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

Adidas has opted to upgrade its ERP system to SAP S/4HANA, transferring it to the cloud with AWS rather than using RISE with SAP, the lift-shift-and-transform service launched by the German vendor earlier this year. Seemingly without SAP’s knowledge, AWS confirmed it is now the sports brand's preferred cloud provider for SAP …

[Anonymous Coward]

I read this as "we don't like our complete corporate dependency on SAP but it would be too painful to move off it completely, so we'll shift it to AWS without SAP's help and try to diversify supply of some of the new features". Makes sense.

[Porco Rosso]

DB migration

Would be interesting to know on which database, data-warehouse even servers the actual SAP ERP ECC 6.0 environment is running on..

If its Oracle then that's again a big company which they lose to SAP and AWS ...