See the following resources for public cloud tuning guidelines for SAS software:

General Papers

• Important Performance Considerations When Moving SAS^® to a Public Cloud (Updated April 2020)
• Does It Matter Where the Various Components of Your SAS^® Infrastructure are Installed? (August 2018)

Microsoft Azure

• Best Practices for Using Microsoft Azure with SAS^® (August 2020)
• Azure NetApp Files: A new shared file system to use with SAS Grid on MS Azure (August 2019)
• SAS and Azure Managed Lustre file system (October 2023)
• EXAScaler Cloud by DDN (Lustre): A shared file system to use with SAS Grid on MS Azure (January 2021)
• Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale: A new shared file system to use with SAS Grid on MS Azure (November 2020)
• InfoScale by Veritas: A shared file system to use with SAS 9.4 Grid on MS Azure (April 2022)
• SAS on Azure architecture - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn
• SAS on Azure: Experiences From the Field webinar by Roeland Nieuwenhuis (Note: You must sign in with your SAS profile to access the recording.)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Best Practices for Deploying SAS Server on AWS (September 2022)
• Performance and Tuning Considerations for SAS^® Grid Manager 9.4 on Amazon (AWS) Cloud using Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre File System (April 2015)
• Performance and Tuning Considerations on Amazon Web Services with SAS^® 9.4 Using IBM Spectrum Scale™ (May 2018)
• SAS^® on an Amazon Web Services Data Lake: Enabling Access to Data Lakes on SAS (April 2020)

Google

• SAS Deployment on Google Cloud Tips/Tricks including BigQuery Integration (April 2021)
• Google Marketplace - DDN Cloud Edition for Lustre (March 2020)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Performance and Tuning Considerations on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with SAS® 9.4 Using IBM Spectrum Scale™

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft® Windows® for x64
		Linux for x64

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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This note contains a list of helpful papers.

Type:	Usage Note
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Date Modified:	2023-10-11 11:10:02
Date Created:	2018-04-30 17:48:08