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AWS Elastic Beanstalk 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

AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
9th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Cloud Platform
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Beanstalk is 0.3%. The mindshare of SAP Cloud Platform is 8.2%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Kevin-Davis - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient deployment and management of web apps with integration into cloud services
One area where AWS Elastic Beanstalk struggles is with the complexity of deployments. As deployments become more complex, technical constraints can become a burden. This can lead to a situation where I might be better off building my own deployment mechanism. Additionally, CloudFormation controlling AWS Elastic Beanstalk in more complex environments is poorly supported, which can make management challenging.
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

"I find the versioning to be especially valuable on AWS Elastic Beanstalk."
"The management of environments is a valuable feature."
"Elastic Beanstalk is helpful and easy to manage services, even when dealing with multiple clients."
"One of the most valuable aspects is that developers can access logs directly. They can download them from the AWS console within Elastic Beanstalk."
"Elastic Beanstalk simplifies deploying and managing applications."
"I would rate the overall solution a ten out of ten."
"Elastic Beanstalk is very easy to use, providing infrastructure to deploy our third-party application to the cloud within 15 to 20 minutes."
"Elastic Beanstalk, based on my experience and recommendations from friends, is a good solution."
"It's suitable for various sizes of companies. I have used it with big companies and with small ones as well."
"The integration flows are the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The ability to expand it whenever required has been great — it's very simple."
"SAP Cloud Platform's performance is much faster than the on-premises solution because of continuous fine-tuning by their team."
"To be able to define multiple sub accounts in order to accommodate and separate development, test, and productive environments."
"The solution is scalable."
"I found flexibility most valuable in the SAP Cloud Platform. It's a simple tool that's good even for first-time users."
"The product is very stable."
 

Cons

"Elastic Beanstalk is powerful, however, it could be enhanced in areas where it abstracts infrastructure management, sometimes limiting advanced users who want granular control over resources like EC2 instances, networking, or load balancers."
"Elastic Beanstalk can enhance its customizability further, especially in terms of deployment options."
"One area where AWS Elastic Beanstalk struggles is with the complexity of deployments."
"The documentation needs to be clearer, particularly relating to editing JSON files before uploading applications."
"Sometimes there are issues when auto-scaling with CloudFront."
"Maybe the company could create more option packages, such as more bundles of configuration."
"AWS Elastic Beanstalk could improve its auto-scaling feature to better detect potential AI-based attacks or misuses that could lead to unexpected costs."
"From what I've observed, it seems AWS has ceased further development on Elastic Beanstalk."
"One crucial aspect where SAP lags behind in flexibility is customization to suit specific business requirements. SAP needs to understand that customization is inevitable and should be more supportive of business-driven customization."
"I would like to see more and better support for data transformations."
"The pricing is too high across all SAP products relative to resource utilization."
"The tool's UI is not very intuitive for cloud integration, so it needs research to understand its options and how it may work."
"Regarding improvements, I think the user experience, specifically the developer experience during design time, could be better. Platforms like MuleSoft and Flowgear have much better design times."
"Allowing more third-party applications to be integrated into the cloud platform would make it easier for customers to adopt SAP Cloud Platform."
"I feel that SAP provides the tools, but after that, you are left on your own. It would be better if they provided more support throughout the usage of their solutions."
"The solution's document management system on the cloud is a bit slow, and document uploading takes time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Cost-wise, I'm unsure of how expensive the SAP Cloud Platform is."
"SAP Cloud Platform costs $2 to $5 per hour, while I found other platforms way more affordable. You have to pay per use, though that's fine because that means the cost is flexible."
"SAP Cloud Platform Integration is an expensive product. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."
"SAP's pricing is usually high compared to the competition. But this is also justified because they hold their products and services to quite high standards."
"SAP provides good discounts."
"SAP Cloud Platform is an expensive solution."
"The solution is worth the money."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk does not have additional charges and integrates well with existing AWS resources. Pricing is inclusive of the technologies and instances used, making it efficient.
What needs improvement with AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk can enhance its customizability further, especially in terms of deployment options.
What is your primary use case for AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk is used in deploying and scaling web applications and services. It helps us deploy and scale web applications on Amazon Web Services cloud. This solution is suitable for managing ...
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...
How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS? Amazon AWS offers options both in terms of upgrading and expanding capabilities as well as acquiring greater storage space. These upgrades can ...
What do you like most about SAP Cloud Platform?
The product improved our company's business operations since we got value out of it.
 

Also Known As

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SAP HANA Cloud Platform
 

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Sample Customers

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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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