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.
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"AWS's security model, including IAM or security groups, has contributed to our organization's compliance. It manages authentication, permissions, and overall security posture, which helps us maintain compliance."
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"SAP Cloud Platform's most valuable features are its exhaustiveness, scalability with minimum maintenance, and functionality."
"It’s great that we have the entire suite of SAP at our fingertips."
"To be able to define multiple sub accounts in order to accommodate and separate development, test, and productive environments."
"The most valuable feature is the data synchronization, or the push and pull of the data."
"The most valuable features of SAP Cloud Platform are security integration and scalability."
"The maintenance part can be outsourced easily."
"The solution is scalable."
"SAP has provided very good support."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"They should have a better big data stack."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"I have been using Amazon AWS for approximately one year."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"Lacks flexibility in its licensing structure."
"They are still developing this product. It does not really have 100% of the necessary features available to properly service business clients"
"When I started looking at the client's IT architecture, I started by doing a study of their services, DVM, data volume, and management services. According to the results, they could be a lot better at this."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements with the price and the licensing."
"From what I understand, the SAP Cloud Platform is for implementation on AWS or Azure, and it's not meant to be a full-fledged cloud solution, so while using the platform, an area for improvement is that it has fewer offerings and is less flexible when compared to AWS. AWS has a lot more flexibility than the SAP Cloud Platform. I've also used Azure in college and AWS in between, and I prefer AWS over the SAP Cloud Platform. The only reason I would ever stick with the SAP Cloud Platform is to create applications integrated with SAP or with other companies within SAP, such as SuccessFactors. When you go into the SAP Cloud Platform web page, it's a bit bland and has relatively limited offerings. For example, there doesn't seem to be in-house MongoDB support, but I realize there's in-house support for the PostgreSQL database, so there are fewer offerings in the SAP Cloud Platform. Yes, you can always go for a database on the actual MongoDB server rather than depending on the offerings of the SAP Cloud Platform. However, it's still better to support MongoDB from the platform, so payment is consolidated, rather than going to a different location to make a payment. Another room for improvement in the SAP Cloud Platform is the need to create an SAP subaccount if you need to use the platform unless you have an SSO login by Google or if you're using a different identity provider such as Microsoft or Google. Instead of requiring dependency on SAP, it would be good if users could use the SAP Cloud Platform even without a subaccount on SAP. For example, when hosting an application on AWS or Azure, you don't have to create an account in Amazon or Microsoft. You can still do it using Google. You can use almost anything, so I'd like SAP to improve by removing the dependency, particularly the requirement to create an SAP account to use the SAP Cloud Platform."
"One crucial aspect where SAP lags behind in flexibility is customization to suit specific business requirements. SAP needs to understand that customization is inevitable and should be more supportive of business-driven customization."
"The solution requires more flexibility overall."
"I feel that SAP provides the tools, but after that, you are left on your own. It would be better if they provided more support throughout the usage of their solutions."
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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