This document provides an overview of deploying SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure, including introduction to Azure and its partnership with SAP, deployment options for SAP HANA virtual machines on Azure with different sizes and regions, architectures for production and non-production use cases with recommended storage, backup, networking, high availability and disaster recovery configurations for SAP HANA on Azure, connecting on-premises environments to Azure, data security, integration with big data and other applications, migrating existing SAP landscapes to HANA on Azure, and monitoring on Azure. It also includes links to documentation on Azure ExpressRoute.

1. Topics
Introduction to Azure (Brief intro and highlights of Azure, describe Azure’s global reach, Service
models, Azure strengths etc),
SAP and Azure (Briefly highlight SAP’s Partnership with Azure)
Business Value Proposition (Cost savings, agility and flexibility with Azure)
HANA on Azure
Deployment options (Certified VMs, sizes, their regional availability, SAP’s benchmarking,
Deployment Scenarios etc)
HANA for Production and non-production use cases (architecture with recommended
storage, backup, network etc)
HANA High Availability on Azure (how to setup, SLAs)
HANA DR on Azure
HANA one On Azure
Connecting On-Premise to Azure (Express route/VPN etc)
Data and Application security in Azure
Integration with Bigdata and other Applications in Azure
Migration of Existing SAP landscape to HANA on Azure
Monitoring on Azure
Links
Expressroute diagram
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-circuit-peerings