We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and SAP S4HANA on AWS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"It is easy to install."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"There are a lot of things that we like about it. It is very easy to provision and configure. It is flexible and scalable."
"Azure is stable. I don't have any problems with it."
"It is indeed a stable solution, but it depends on how you architecture the component in AWS. If the component has the right architecture and is properly provisioned and placed, then it will be a stable platform."
"SAP has an auto-scaling feature, but Azure doesn't."
"SAP S4HANA's most valuable features include backup, security, storage, infrastructure, and enabling AI."
"SAP S4HANA on AWS has high performance. All the data is in one place and it's real-time. When you make an entry you don't have to wait a couple of minutes, hours, or overnight as something the batch process takes time. It is instantaneous and is available to everybody."
"The solution adds great value to any organization."
"The system has the capacity to manage all these departments in a single box and they're all integrated."
"The most valuable feature of SAP S4HANA on AWS is that when developed on a new structured system it can be configured."
"They have their own instances where you can host your database."
"The solution is too expensive."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"SAP S4HANA on AWS could improve by having the entire solution available as a web solution. They only have Fiori right now, and it's a solution for certain modules, but not for all the modules that SAP currently has. We would like to see the GUI removed, it is not very good. We want it to be web-based."
"The documentation isn't clear enough."
"SAP S4HANA could be improved by adding a click-to-deploy model."
"I would like to see a lower price for the solution."
"There are a few complexities when it comes to licensing that could be simplified."
"The drawback of this tool versus an on-site tool is that you've got to upgrade the tool. The software is upgraded as it gets upgraded and you've got to be ready to change whatever processes and do whatever training you need to do."
"The product can be very complex."
"If you go to AWS's site they offer training programs that are very good. SAP does not do the same, if SAP could provide some training that would be great."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 179 reviews while SAP S4HANA on AWS is ranked 4th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 12 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while SAP S4HANA on AWS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP S4HANA on AWS writes "High performance, impressive technology, and useful dashboards". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Salesforce Platform, whereas SAP S4HANA on AWS is most compared with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Amazon AWS. See our Microsoft Azure vs. SAP S4HANA on AWS report.
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SAP S/4HANA is a system for managing relational databases. The in-memory system, as well as the columnar structure, results in retrieving the data with better performance than RDBMS systems.
You can deploy it in AWS or in Azure. Here is a brief comparison:
Azure dedicates specific virtual machines and bare metal servers to run SAP HANA. SAP HANA applications run on an SAP application. With Azure, you have an entire SAP application (VM) layer that includes servers, storage, and network configuration. You can deploy resources from 36 Intel with memory of 768GB to 480 Intel processors with 24TB of memory. Finally, you can combine AP and non SAP data. You can apply advanced data services, such as analytics and AI.
Aws
Azure
Supported use cases
Production, non-production
Production, non-production
Supported resources
Up to 48TB of memory
Up to 12TB
Licensing
Pay per use BYOL
subscription
Services
Single and multi-node architecture. Load balancing, instance provisioning.
Load balancing, clustering, Active Directory, and the HANA database.
SAP S/4HANA on AWS provides infrastructure services. AWS has the advantage of making SAP HANA available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant. With AWS you can configure a single EC2 to host SAP HANA with EBS storage and your chosen operating system. Another option is to use multi-AZ to deploy primary and secondary nodes, using one for production and another for non-production.
You have two main options: First, BYOL (Bring your own license). It supports native HANA applications, S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, and you can have OLAP memory up to 100 TB. Second, the express edition, which is free to use for in-memory databases, but keep in mind you’ll have to stay under 32 GB.
Conclusions
Which is best will depend on your use cases. Azure in my opinion offers better performance for big data and AI workloads. AWS provides more reliability and redundancy.