We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and SAP Cloud Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon AWS and SAP Cloud Platform have a similar user rating based on ease of deployment and service and support. However, in terms of cost, Amazon AWS outperforms SAP Cloud Platform. Based on features, users felt Amazon AWS was an overall great solution but needed better data management. In contrast, users of SAP Cloud Platform felt the software had good data synchronization but was still a young product.
"The best thing is scalability."
"I like the auto-scaling functionality and compliance requirements, whichever they are requesting."
"Amazon AWS has improved a lot on security and is very good. Additionally, You can integrate your own security into their AWS platform."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"Technical support has been great."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"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."
"Works very quickly and is well managed."
"Cloud Platform's stability is great."
"The pre-delivered content from the SAP cloud platform is definitely a strength."
"It’s great that we have the entire suite of SAP at our fingertips."
"Though I'm not a massive fan of the SAP Cloud Platform, it has good features, such as its integration with other SAP solutions. When integrating with SAP or even the SAP sister company SuccessFactors and other companies SAP has acquired, you also enjoy data features in the SAP Cloud Platform, such as role-based permissions and other characteristics you can import from SAP."
"It's suitable for various sizes of companies. I have used it with big companies and with small ones as well."
"The maintenance part can be outsourced easily."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ability to expand it whenever required has been great — it's very simple."
"The price could be better."
"In some scenarios, Azure will support hybrid cloud better while AWS offers direct connection."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"I think Amazon could improve some of the security or fine-grained access for metadata and many other things."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"Many of our clients prefer in-house cloud rather than the application data sitting in the infrastructure owned and managed by Amazon."
"One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others."
"The customization could be improved."
"My impression of the stability is that it is not good. Almost every month there is something new and that makes us nervous about delivery."
"I would like to see more and better support for data transformations."
"The current pricing model is credit-based. We would like to have more information about the usage of the existing applications."
"While it was good for a small entity, it was not ideal for a large enterprise."
"Planning features are limited to the finance module."
"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."
"When they innovate too fast, they end up confusing their customers."
"The price of the solution could improve."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while SAP Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 37 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while SAP Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". 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 AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas SAP Cloud Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods.io Integration and Mendix. See our Amazon AWS vs. SAP Cloud Platform report.
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