01 What happened
The open-source ABAP Cloud SDK for Azure was introduced on October 12, 2026. The SDK offers a layered HTTP pipeline, Microsoft Entra ID credentials, typed exceptions, and typed service clients for Storage Blob, Compute, and Resource Graph. It is written entirely in ABAP for Cloud Development using only released APIs, ensuring clean activation within ABAP Cloud constraints. Developers need a SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environment, or S/4HANA Cloud system with ABAP for Cloud Development, a Microsoft Entra ID identity, and appropriate Azure RBAC roles. The code is imported via abapGit under the package hierarchy ZABAP_SDK_AZURE.
02 Key details
- The open-source ABAP Cloud SDK for Azure was introduced on October 12, 2026, hosted at GitHub. It targets SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environment, and S/4HANA Cloud.
- First release includes three typed service clients: Storage Blob (list, upload, download), Compute (manage VMs, scale sets, images, hosts), and Resource Graph (run KQL queries).
- Authentication uses Microsoft Entra ID with support for client secret, managed identity, environment credential, and default credential. User Delegation SAS is recommended for Blob storage access.
- SDK is fully compliant with ABAP Cloud constraints: written in ABAP for Cloud Development using only released APIs. Import via abapGit; package root is ZABAP_SDK_AZURE.
03 Why it matters
This SDK eliminates repetitive hand-built HTTP client requests, manual OAuth token handling, and error handling for Azure integrations in ABAP Cloud, reducing development effort and improving code maintainability and testability.
04 Who it matters to
SAP developers and SAP integration teams.