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Amazon AWS vs SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 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 Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
257
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 16.6%, down from 19.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon AWS16.6%
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud1.4%
Other82.0%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Asif  Meem - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed cloud services have helped accelerate experiments with flexible configuration options
Sometimes the costs associated with spinning up a service, especially managed services, have implications. For example, if I create a Glue job, that will create S3 buckets and other resources that have cost implications, but once I clean up a Glue job, it does not delete the other accessory resources. Sometimes, I have to go hunting for what resources Amazon AWS might have provisioned and how it is costing behind the scenes. It can be complex depending on your level of expertise. It is not as easy to get started, especially when it comes to secure practices. Amazon AWS is more hands-on than other platforms.
Rajnikant Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Real-time data processing and good support with room for market-driven improvements
SAP RFX and overall SAP solutions provide a very intuitive and integrated solution within finance, leading procurement, and other business scenarios. The real-time data processing and the ability to track all leasing processes and contracts are particularly valuable. SAP's capability to integrate with other systems like GIS and non-SAP applications also stands out.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It integrates well."
"The product is easy to use."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"There is no downtime. The solution is reliable."
"They are enterprising and pretty good in terms of features. It has good security. Its availability is also pretty good. It is available everywhere in the world. It has pretty good integrations, and it is working well. They have done a lot of improvements, and its UI has improved a lot."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"The technical support is good."
"We have a wide range of use cases for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. These include production planning, materials management, sales management, treasury, finance, appliance maintenance, real estate, and warehouse management."
"There's a minimum amount of downtime when using the solution. This platform is very effective."
"One of the features that I've found most useful is that It's very simple. They take care of the technical aspects of the data, installations, patches."
"The real-time data processing and the ability to track all leasing processes and contracts are particularly valuable."
"The BTP module is important for digital transformations."
"The solution is stable and we have never had a problem. We started with one terabyte of data when the solution was first implemented and today we have around almost 600 gigabytes of data, which means means the compression works properly. Before migrating from ECC, we had nine terabytes of data."
"Traditionally, SAP worked with Oracle databases, but SAP is getting rid of the other databases and promoting its own. SAP will stop support for other databases around 2026, so everyone is moving to SAP S/4HANA for the performance and because it's the preferred database for SAP. S/4HANA has new features from the front-end or application feature perspective. The idea is to move toward future-ready technology."
"The interface is easy to manage."
 

Cons

"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"There is no control of downtime."
"It has the technical support features, but they need to be improved. It has lots of users, but they need to be managed accordingly."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"Amazon needs to develop better tools for troubleshooting network traffic, application insights, performance, and even some aspects of integration mapping. I'm hoping AWS implements something like Azure's Network Watcher and a log analytics solution where a can pull logs from various services and present them in a single dashboard. I want to summarize the performance and usage of every service and application."
"Could be more user friendly and include additional applications."
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"It’s a common challenge with applications like Microsoft and SAP that they tend to rely on engineers rather than human resources personnel for knowledge and implementation."
"The solution needs to embed or integrate with IBP to fully activate the PPT module with efficiency."
"It needs improvement in terms of stability and performance."
"Customers need to be better educated about using the solution's cloud for digital transformation."
"The only thing that could be improved is the cost."
"The customer has a lot of dependencies on SAP which means they don't have much flexibility to go and update the system when or if they need to. They will need to wait for the quarterly updates. It's possible to maybe raise a special request with SAP if it is absolutely necessary."
"The solution is scalable from an infrastructure point of view. However, it becomes more complex over time because technology is changing so fast."
"This product is not mature enough at this point in time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is on a pay-as-use pricing model. The price of the solution could always be better but it is priced competitively."
"The pricing is reasonable. It's not expensive, nor will it be cheap, but the free credits initially given provide leverage for new companies to start their businesses."
"AWS is not an expensive product."
"For our infrastructure, the cost is approximately $25 per device, and you have to include the other tools that we have in the cloud, for a total of approximately $200,000 per year."
"The pricing of Amazon AWS is high compared to any other cloud provider."
"It is subscription-based, and we are happy with its pricing."
"The price, in general, could be better."
"I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing."
"The product itself is relatively expensive."
"Our pricing is based on a yearly contract."
"The solution could be less expensive."
"It's very, very expensive."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"The price is on little bit higher. For SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we see roughly five crores per annum."
"The price is high compared to other databases, which is why HANA is still not widely used. Some enterprises prefer Sybase, Oracle, or other traditional databases because HANA is a little pricey. Cost is one factor SAP needs to work on to make it more competitive with other databases. Otherwise, they'll never be able to develop a mass customer base."
"If you choose the minimum, it will probably cost around $1,000 USD per month if you take a contract for a year or two."
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Comparison Review

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Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
7%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
8%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business131
Midsize Enterprise48
Large Enterprise112
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
 

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Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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