SAP Cloud Connector is a connector developed and supported by SAP. It is designed to allow the establishment of a secure communication link between customer’s on-premise network, to SAP Business Technology Platform or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
SAP Cloud Connector runs as an on-premise agent in a secure network. It acts as a reverse invoke proxy between the on-premise network and SAP Business Technology Platform or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Main Advantages
Compared to the approach of opening ports in the firewall and using reverse proxies in the DMZ to establish access to on-premise systems from SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Cloud Connectors offers many benefits:
Provides find-grained control over on-premise systems and resources that can be accessed by cloud applications in SAP Business Technology Platform, including the use of virtual host and port to protect on-premise host name. No need to change on-premise firewall settings.
Recovers broken connections automatically.
Provides audit logging of inbound traffic and configuration changes.
Runs in a high availability setup. Multiple SAP Cloud Connectors can be linked to the same SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount.
Supports HTTP and other protocols such as RFC protocol for remote function module call in ABAP systems.
Support propagation of cloud user identity to on-premise systems in a secure way.
Low TCO with easy installation and configuration.