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."Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"Great scalability."
"The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money."
"Amazon AWS is easy to use and in the past two years, I've never had any issues with scalability or stability."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"We've built several AI ML solutions and done lots of work on the GPUs available on Amazon servers. We did a lot of work around web spidering, natural language processing, and machine learning or deep learning workloads."
"There are two main features that we find very valuable. One is the interface and the new user experience. That's really, really helpful for the end-user. The second is the HANA database itself because it speeds up the process. In other solutions, like Oracle, there is a lot of redundancy that slows things down."
"Technical support is very good from SAP and AWS...Scalability is always available in the solution...With a stable environment, it should be running very nicely."
"They have their own instances where you can host your database."
"The product’s high availability is its best feature."
"The system has the capacity to manage all these departments in a single box and they're all integrated."
"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."
"This product is much better than most of the other products in this categaory as far as financial capabilities."
"The most valuable features of SAP S4HANA on AWS are that it's simplified and the analytical capabilities are good."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"We would like the system documentation for configuring this solution to be improved, in order to provide better process clarity."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"I think that the interface could be improved."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"As far as the automation is concerned, the backups should be scaled."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"The AI aspect of SAP S4HANA can be improved."
"The solution is costlier than other products."
"We had some storage and legacy migrations problems with SAP S4HANA on AWS."
"The product's implementation phase can be very complex for customers."
"There are a few complexities when it comes to licensing that could be simplified."
"There are times when the solution can become slower. The stability could improve."
"The product could use more capabilities in the areas of robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, but these improvements are already on the way."
"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, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, 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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