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Amazon AWS vs SAP Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
254
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (2nd)
SAP Cloud Platform
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 13.5%, down from 17.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Cloud Platform is 8.3%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Arun Srivastav - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows for automatic scaling of resources and provides built-in firewalls and security features, eliminating the need for external security solutions
One thing that's a bit different is that we're still accustomed to speaking to someone directly. AWS doesn't offer that kind of support. It's only through bots. You're speaking to chatbots, and that can sometimes be frustrating because there's no person on the other side. AI is not a substitute for a person. AWS marketplace is very strong, but somehow AWS doesn't promote it much. They have a huge customer base across the globe, and if products were launched in their marketplace, they could sell like hotcakes. They should improve their marketplace and promote the same product across the globe. They can take a cut, but they should promote it. That's something they don't do very much. So, AWS should promote its marketplace software. The company should promote it aggressively. Currently, they keep it very subtle. If you ask for it, they'll help you out. But they don't seem to advertise, "You're building a product on our platform? Why don't you sell it in our marketplace?" Improvement in AI: AWS is a little behind Microsoft Azure in terms of AI. AWS is still getting there, but the kind of examples and help files available in Azure for AI are much better. So AWS still needs to work on its AI functionality.
PinakiGhosh - PeerSpot reviewer
The implementation cycle has been reduced significantly but has room for integration enhancements
Our existing customers who are on ECC are on-premises. They are migrating to SAP Cloud Platform, specifically on S4HANA.  One of our clients was on SAP ECC on-premises, and they are moving to the cloud on S4HANA on the public cloud system.  We are supporting about 15 customers, mostly small to…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS has large community support."
"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."
"The most valuable features I have found are the Database Migration Service (DMS) for monitoring the host and routing, Route 53, and EC2 tools. The DMS is not available in any other solution that I am aware of. They have a very flexible and professional solution."
"Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"User friendly solution."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"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."
"It's very easily implemented, especially with the Grow Platform."
"I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten. My company has 800 users."
"One of the most valuable features I have found is that the solution is secure."
"The solution can scale."
"It's suitable for various sizes of companies. I have used it with big companies and with small ones as well."
"SAP is an excellent company with an excellent reputation, excellent products, and dedicated customer support."
"The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward."
"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."
 

Cons

"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"Amazon AWS could be improved with cheaper licensing costs."
"The technical support should be better than what is on offer right now."
"Its interface could be better because there are so many services right now in the product that it is quite difficult to navigate around in this. Its interface could be a subject of improvement."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"Planning features are limited to the finance module."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"I've observed a few bugs in SAP. One recent bug I found in Content Modifier is that when using a predefined header to call the current date, it prints the previous date. These are small bugs I found."
"The current pricing model is credit-based. We would like to have more information about the usage of the existing applications."
"The areas I think this solution should improve are monitoring and adapting."
"The tool's UI is not very intuitive for cloud integration, so it needs research to understand its options and how it may work."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements with the price and the licensing."
"While it was good for a small entity, it was not ideal for a large enterprise."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing."
"The licensing cost varies with the project involved."
"The price can be better."
"Monthly licensing fee."
"It seems to be reasonable. It's the first one that I've used as a cloud platform, so they've set the benchmark for me, and now, I'm comparing everything else to them."
"Reasonably priced and comparable to similar services."
"It is decently priced. The competition is also bringing its own cloud offerings, such as from Oracle."
"We pay a monthly licensing fee. It's below $100 a month."
"The product's pricing varies and depends on the customers' needs."
"The price of the solution depends on the package that is purchased. There are many packages to choose from. The packages are not overly expensive."
"I discovered that the SAP Cloud Platform is affordable, contrary to the impression that it's expensive. The pricing for extra packages or messages is quite reasonable, especially for things like message throughput and processing."
"SAP Cloud Platform Integration is an expensive product. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."
"SAP Cloud Platform is an expensive solution."
"The cost when it comes to monitoring can be difficult."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."
"The pricing can be negotiated."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
30%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
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We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful...
Which is better - SAP Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure?
One of the best features of SAP Cloud Platform is that it is web-based and you can log in from anywhere in the world. SAP Cloud Platform is suitable for companies of any size; it works well with bo...
What do you like most about SAP Cloud Platform?
The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Cloud Platform?
SAP is competitive compared to other enterprise solutions like Oracle, though not necessarily cheap. Microsoft Dynamics, for example, is for a different kind of customer base.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
 

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Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
Siemens, Shell & Volkswagen, Still, EarlySense, Roche, National Football League, Heidelberg University Hospital, In Mind Computing, The Timken Company, OPAL, EnterpriseJungle, Groupe Danone, Accenture, T-Systems, Sailing Team Germany, Sloan Valve
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