Support for Db2 on public clouds

Primary focus: Client flexibility for cloud deployments

Support for Db2 on public clouds (BYOSL, SAP Notes, Reference blueprints)

Table 1. Support for Db2 on public clouds (BYOSL, SAP Notes, Reference blueprints). Support for Db2 on public clouds (BYOSL, SAP Notes, Reference blueprints)
	IBM Cloud	IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers	Amazon Web Services	Microsoft Azure	Google Cloud Platform	Alibaba Cloud
BYOSL	IBM Eligible Public Cloud BYOSL policy					Db2 for SAP only with SAP user metric
SAP / Db2 certified per documented OS requirements	Yes (SAP Notes 2414097 and 2927211)	Yes (SAP Note 2855850)	Yes (SAP Note 1656099)	Yes (SAP Note 1928533)	Yes (SAP Note 2456432)	Yes (SAP Note 2552731)
HADR Support	Support is available where cloud providers have performed testing and published blueprints (cluster managers TSAMP or Pacemaker). For example, with versions of Pacemaker not provided and validated by Db2®, issues related to cluster managers such as automatic failover, setup, configuration, tuning, and others will be supported by the supplier of Pacemaker and its dependent software. In this scenario, Db2 will provide support on non-cluster manager related issues. In Db2 version 11.5.4, Pacemaker was released as a Technical Preview. Db2 provides and supports Pacemaker as an integrated cluster manager solution in HADR only if the Pacemaker and its software stack used are supplied by Db2 directly and configured using the new db2cm utility. In Db2 version 11.5.5 and later, Pacemaker is no longer in Technical Preview and customers may deploy this in production environments. See Integrated solution using Pacemaker for information on Pacemaker integrated with Db2.
Backup gaps	Db2 Advanced Copy Services (ACS): if there is no embedded support between ACS and the storage solution, then the customer or cloud service vendor needs to write their own scripts. DB2 Advanced Copy Services,The scripted interface DB2 Advanced Copy Services,The scripted interface for DB2 Advanced Copy Services, Part 2 DB2 Advanced Copy Services,The scripted interface for DB2 Advanced Copy Services, Part 3 DB2 Advanced Copy Services: The scripted interface, Part 4,Implementation for DB2 ACS
Links to published SAP related cloud reference blueprints	SAP NetWeaver on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers SAP NetWeaver on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud	SAP NetWeaver on IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers connected to IBM Cloud	SAP on AWS Implementation and Operations Guide	IBM DB2 Azure Virtual Machines DBMS deployment for SAP workload	All IBM Db2 for SAP NetWeaver Guides; Planning Guide, Deployment Guide, HA Cluster Deployment Guide	IBM Db2 for SAP Planning Guide IBM Db2 for SAP Deployment Guide IBM Db2 for SAP High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Note: You can view SAP Notes at the SAP ONE Support Launchpad. Enter the path, https://support.sap.com/notes, in your web browser and add the note number to the "Knowledge base" search field to open a specific note.

Support for Db2 on container platforms

Table 2. Supported cloud service providers for containerized, self-managed Db2 deployments
	Db2	Db2 Warehouse
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	Yes	Yes
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)	Yes	Yes

Note:

HADR configurations are possible for Db2 OLTP and Db2 Warehouse for SMP environments on both AWS and Azure.
Db2 pureScale configurations are currently available only for self-managed, non-containerized configurations on AWS.

For more information, see Db2 for cloud service providers.