We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS 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."The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the high level of capabilities, cloud-native environment, developer-friendly, intuitive interface, and automation. The solution overall is easy to learn from the resources available."
"The solution offers easy provisioning and scaling on the fly."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"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 feature is the availability, as we work in different availability zones."
"With extensive data and a sizable client base, this ensures seamless operations, responsiveness, and overall reliability, addressing our enterprise-scale needs effectively."
"We have found the retail business features to be the most valuable."
"The product efficiently manages the data center without manual intervention."
"They have their own instances where you can host your database."
"Reporting transparency and user-friendliness are the key benefit of deploying SAP S4HANA on AWS. Furthermore, the solution offers a plethora of modules that have proven to be valuable, and there are regular updates available."
"SAP S4HANA on AWS is an easy-to-use solution."
"It's easy to use and user-friendly."
"The internal integration within departments and integration with third parties is simplified in the system."
"The dashboard can be improved a little bit to provide more information."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"I would appreciate more direct support from AWS."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"It is difficult to hand over legacy applications when migrating them to the cloud."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"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."
"I would like scalability to be improved in the future for faster performance."
"The solution is costlier than other products."
"The platform's front-end user interface needs improvement compared to other applications."
"The pricing is a little bit high."
"Over the last three to four years, I haven't encountered significant issues with SAP S/4HANA. While occasional system bugs are normal in software, the overall experience has been positive. As a business partner, it stands out as a reliable ERP solution."
"Businesses are particularly interested in process automation, mobile, and web applications. These are the areas that SAP S4HANA is and should be looking to improve on, especially in terms of streamlining processes and automating certain steps."
"The product can be very complex."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while SAP S4HANA on AWS is ranked 7th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 35 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while SAP S4HANA on AWS is rated 8.2. 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 S4HANA on AWS writes "With good documentation in place, the solution offers good technical support to its users". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas SAP S4HANA on AWS is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. SAP S4HANA on AWS report.
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