We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and SAP Cloud Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon AWS and SAP Cloud Platform have a similar user rating based on ease of deployment and service and support. However, in terms of cost, Amazon AWS outperforms SAP Cloud Platform. Based on features, users felt Amazon AWS was an overall great solution but needed better data management. In contrast, users of SAP Cloud Platform felt the software had good data synchronization but was still a young product.
"Newly introduced features advance capabilities."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"Great scalability."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength."
"It's suitable for various sizes of companies. I have used it with big companies and with small ones as well."
"The ability to build custom applications on the BTP platform, reducing customization on the SAP HANA system and improving performance and management."
"One of the best features of this solution is that it is web-based and you can log in and work on it from anywhere."
"To be able to define multiple sub accounts in order to accommodate and separate development, test, and productive environments."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"We primarily utilize SAP's ERP capabilities."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"I want to use AWS as a full solution for my website - for domain and website hosting, and everything in between - however, I was not able to find everything together."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"The pricing is expensive"
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options. The way everything is arranged really forces users to figure out everything on their own and then, on top of that, to calculate the total costs. There's an infinite number of combinations even just with cost calculations. It's just too much."
"Shows errors without providing any analysis."
"Usability is a challenge most of the time and not being able to get all of the information."
"I would like for it to have integration to GitHub."
"The product could be improved for consistent user interfaces."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
"I've observed a few bugs in SAP. One recent bug I found in Content Modifier is that when using a predefined header to call the current date, it prints the previous date. These are small bugs I found."
"SAP Cloud Platform's installation is not straightforward. You need a person with knowledge to handle it."
"The tool's UI is not very intuitive for cloud integration, so it needs research to understand its options and how it may work."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 38 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Cloud Platform writes "Provides seamless integration with CTI for streamlined data synchronization but complexity and challenges in migrating existing applications to the low-code model for custom application development". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods.io Integration and Mendix. See our Amazon AWS vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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