SAP S4HANA on AWS vs vCloud Air comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Virtustream are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.1, while Virtustream is ranked #22. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.3% mindshare in ISI, compared to Virtustream’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Virtustream users who would recommend it.

SAP S4HANA on AWS

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SAP S4HANA on AWS

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

vCloud Air and SAP S4HANA on AWS are competitors in the cloud services market. SAP S4HANA on AWS is considered the superior solution due to its advanced ERP capabilities and integration within the AWS ecosystem.

Features: vCloud Air provides scalable cloud infrastructure, seamless migration, and system integration. SAP S4HANA on AWS offers comprehensive ERP functionalities, real-time analytics, and strong integration within AWS.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCloud Air offers straightforward deployment with dedicated support, suitable for rapid cloud adoption. SAP S4HANA on AWS presents a more complex deployment process with extensive customization options but is supported by a robust network to aid in managing deployment challenges.

Pricing and ROI: vCloud Air has competitive initial setup costs and attracts businesses looking for cost efficiency. SAP S4HANA on AWS, despite its higher initial cost, provides substantial long-term ROI through operational efficiencies and data insights, making it a strategic investment.

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Categories and Ranking

SAP S4HANA on AWS

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vCloud Air

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of SAP S4HANA on AWS is 2.3%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCloud Air is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP S4HANA on AWS	2.3%
vCloud Air	0.9%
Other	96.8%

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Jayakrishna Amm

Associate Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

End-to-end accounting has been streamlined and secures data with automated controls

SAP S4HANA on AWS is mostly well secured because you need a VPN of the company you are working in to log in and view only with the VPN. It is not possible to connect to a random network, and it is very safe. In terms of usage and automation, SAP S4HANA on AWS is very good at automation, where instead of manually punching entry by entry as with Tally, Zoho, or NetSuite, you can do a bulk upload and close it from one GL to another GL entry from one T-code to another T-code. These are all the options and features, and it is user-friendly. Once you learn SAP S4HANA on AWS, you tend to know how to customize things and what features you want. You can add in features by working closely with the SAP team, whether it is a direct SAP team or through a contract with some agent. There are numerous things you can do; it is not limited to only one function. You can have end-to-end control, and back-dated entries are not possible as in Tally or Zoho, which is very good in terms of security and safety. There are no accounting frauds; we can even identify who has done an entry by name. It is very secure; a password gets locked automatically after two incorrect attempts, and you have to contact the SAP team for that. Data privacy is very good, and overall, it is a better option. Regarding real-time analytics features in SAP S4HANA on AWS, you can integrate with Qlik or Power BI, and I believe there is also an analytics component within SAP itself. SAP S4HANA on AWS provides one analytics tool, and these tools can be integrated and customized however you want. It is very easy to do analytics; you can download reports or integrate those reports with Power BI. It is very convenient that way. When it comes to AI capabilities integrated with SAP S4HANA on AWS, I am not certain because most of it comes via tools such as Qlik and Power BI. There are multiple other things that can help you integrate and work on it. For example, integrating Power BI with N28 or Cloud is convenient with tools such as Copilot. However, I am unsure how it works in SAP S4HANA on AWS because most organizations do not allow integrating AI with SAP S4HANA on AWS.

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Saurabh Chandratre

Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora

With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.

All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"SAP S4HANA's most valuable features include backup, security, storage, infrastructure, and enabling AI."

"I have found a lot of the features that SAP S4HANA provides are very good."

"We use the product for many different functions; financial production, material management, distribution functions, everything."

"SAP is number one in the world in all the years I've used this solution."

"This solution has one of the most modern databases and it is very stable."

"SAP S4HANA gives really good ROI."

"The reporting capability is good, providing very in-depth information."

"The Fiori interface is the most valuable feature. It's one of the highlights that they offer. The in-memory of S4 is very fast."

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"The Cloud DRaaS solution provided the organization with new levels of flexibility and cost control, together with rapid expansion capability."

"This is the part that should be making admins and CIOs smile."

"VMware Workstation has an interesting feature to manage vSphere infrastructure (and also stand-alone ESXi hosts) that is really powerful and useful, for example to avoid to install the vSphere client (or the integration plugin) just to open one VM console or to change the power status for some VM."

Cons

"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."

"There are times when the solution can become slower. The stability could improve."

"I would rate the pricing as a two and a half out of five."

"Doesn't have a common development environment."

"I would like for them to have more integration with virtualization platforms."

"The product can be very complex. It is not extremely user-friendly."

"We had some storage and legacy migrations problems with SAP S4HANA on AWS."

"The solution needs a warehouse management feature. Right now, there's a built-in WM, but they don't have an EWM extended warehouse management built-in, in S/4HANA. It's a separate product. So if they can add that, that would be great."

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"It’s a really good idea, but the current implementation is very limited: you can simply see your VMs and just open the VM console."

"I don’t think it is quite where EC2 is with regard to capabilities and features but VMware is investing a lot in vCloud Air."

"I feel the user interface/portal can be improved further. I did experience timeout issues and the UI was performing slowly at times."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a significant investment, around six hundred thousand dollars, and it involves both a one-time on-premises installation on servers and a cloud subscription with different flavors for SAP S4HANA."

"We pay a monthly fee for the use of SAP S4HANA on AWS for approximately five years. That's the time of the contract."

"It's expensive. It would be good if AWS and Azure could reduce the computing cost for people who move to the public cloud."

"There are additional modules-wise, it's needed for modules, and also for any new functions."

"I rate the product price a six on a one to ten scale, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"The licensing of the product is reasonable but the cost of the hardware is exorbitant."

"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the highest price, I rate the solution's pricing an eight."

"SAP S4HANA's pricing model should be more flexible and transparent - there's a lot of negotiation and internal factors, and some customers get better value and services for the same product."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

13%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	16

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP S4HANA on AWS?

The initial setup required a higher investment, but the return on investment has justified the cost.

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What needs improvement with SAP S4HANA on AWS?

Currently, we have some integration areas like Concur and Ariba that could be improved. Having these integrations as a single source rather than working in silos would be beneficial for customers.

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What is your primary use case for SAP S4HANA on AWS?

We transitioned from being an existing Business One ( /products/sap-business-one-reviews ) user to using SAP S4HANA on AWS ( /products/sap-s4hana-on-aws-reviews ) because our business outgrew the p...

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SAP S/4HANA on AWS

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Overview

SAP customers of all sizes can fully realize all the benefits of the SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition on the AWS Cloud. With SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition on the AWS Cloud you can:

Achieve faster time to value with the AWS on-demand infrastructure
Rapidly provision infrastructure for SAP S/4HANA with no upfront cost or long-term commitment
Pay for only what you need Don't spend upfront costs purchasing hardware for what you can't forecast
Test and evaluate SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition with a free trial offering from SAP on AWS

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vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.

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