We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and SAP Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"To be able to define multiple sub accounts in order to accommodate and separate development, test, and productive environments."
"It’s great that we have the entire suite of SAP at our fingertips."
"It’s easy to maintain, as everything is handled by SAP."
"The most valuable features of the SAP Cloud Platform are the extensions and integrations. Additionally, there are a lot of AI-based microservices."
"The mapping transformation allows us to connect our on-premise ECC to the cloud system."
"The solution is scalable."
"The maintenance part can be outsourced easily."
"The solution has a lot of great features."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"The product could be improved for consistent user interfaces."
"Better connectivity to on-premise systems would help us to support older systems that are migrating to the cloud."
"The product needs improvement for serverless native integrations. They should opt for serverless features as all the customers worldwide choose cloud-based products."
"Planning features are limited to the finance module."
"Usability is a challenge most of the time and not being able to get all of the information."
"The tool's UI is not very intuitive for cloud integration, so it needs research to understand its options and how it may work."
"What I would like to see improved is the learning curve."
"Lacks flexibility in its licensing structure."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 38 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". 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 Lightsail is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google App Engine, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Mule Anypoint Platform and webMethods.io Integration. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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