2021-08-18T11:42:00Z

Looking for a comparison chart between SAP S4 HANA on AWS and Microsoft Azure

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2021-11-07T14:31:24Z
Nov 7, 2021

SAP S/4HANA is a system for managing relational databases. The in-memory system, as well as the columnar structure, results in retrieving the data with better performance than RDBMS systems.


You can deploy it in AWS or in Azure. Here is a brief comparison:


Azure dedicates specific virtual machines and bare metal servers to run SAP HANA. SAP HANA applications run on an SAP application. With Azure, you have an entire SAP application (VM) layer that includes servers, storage, and network configuration. You can deploy resources from 36 Intel with memory of 768GB to 480 Intel processors with 24TB of memory. Finally, you can combine AP and non SAP data. You can apply advanced data services, such as analytics and AI.




























Aws

Azure

Supported use cases

Production, non-production

Production, non-production

Supported resources

Up to 48TB of memory

Up to 12TB

Licensing

Pay per use BYOL

subscription

Services

Single and multi-node architecture. Load balancing, instance provisioning.

Load balancing, clustering, Active Directory, and the HANA database.


SAP S/4HANA on AWS provides infrastructure services. AWS has the advantage of making SAP HANA available, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant. With AWS you can configure a single EC2 to host SAP HANA with EBS storage and your chosen operating system. Another option is to use multi-AZ to deploy primary and secondary nodes, using one for production and another for non-production.


You have two main options: First, BYOL (Bring your own license). It supports native HANA applications, S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, and you can have OLAP memory up to 100 TB. Second, the express edition, which is free to use for in-memory databases, but keep in mind you’ll have to stay under 32 GB.


Conclusions


Which is best will depend on your use cases. Azure in my opinion offers better performance for big data and AI workloads. AWS provides more reliability and redundancy.

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2021-08-26T10:20:54Z
Aug 26, 2021

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