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.
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
"Cloud Management has been a valuable feature."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"IaaS with easy management and rapid implementation using Python Django Mezzanine."
"The product captures data in real time."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"The most valuable features of the SAP Cloud Platform are the extensions and integrations. Additionally, there are a lot of AI-based microservices."
"The entire SAP ecosystem is a valuable feature. It provides access to SAP S/4HANA, ACG systems, and their Fiori launchpad, making it easy to navigate between them. This makes the enterprise very accessible."
"Scalability is one of the benefits that we have in using the product."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The features I found most valuable are the integration options."
"The solution is very useful and interactive with a dashboard for viewing other interfaces."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"AWS has room for improvement on the Kubernetes side. I would like to go a little deeper into the Kubernetes target, Elastic, inner system, and all that. The EKS, target, and all these areas need to be improved, but that is not my key area because I am mostly working on the application side."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"The customization could be improved."
"I want to see better pricing from the SAP Cloud Platform in the future. I also want more security and scalability from it."
"They are still developing this product. It does not really have 100% of the necessary features available to properly service business clients"
"The current pricing model is credit-based. We would like to have more information about the usage of the existing applications."
"When they innovate too fast, they end up confusing their customers."
"SAP Cloud Platform's installation is not straightforward. You need a person with knowledge to handle it."
"Shows errors without providing any analysis."
"Usability is a challenge most of the time and not being able to get all of the information."
"The main problem is that there aren't any easy migrations from SAP PO to SAP CPI, so from process orchestration to cloud platform integration."
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, Red Hat 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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