SAP has been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) since 2008. Over 600 SAP employees in more than 16 countries now directly use AWS, provisioning over 10,000 SAP systems on AWS. SAP's initial goals with AWS were to reduce IT costs and speed up prototyping from 4 weeks to deployment. SAP has since established knowledge centers for AWS and cloud adoption, conducting over 100 customer trainings, demos, and workshops on AWS hosting over 1,000 SAP systems. SAP sees external cloud infrastructure like AWS playing a larger role for SAP customers and applications in the future.