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    Amazon Web Services

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.

    $100

    per month

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Free Tier
    $0
    per month
    Basic Environment
    $100 - $200
    per month
    Intermediate Environment
    $250 - $600
    per month
    Advanced Environment
    $600-$2500
    per month
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
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    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.—
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    Apart from Amazon Web Services, we use Microsoft Azure in some of our projects. I have some basic experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well. If given a choice, I would prefer using Amazon Web Services over Azure or GCP. I find provisioning of resources relatively faster …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    Both the services are in the field for quite sometime. And the biggest competitor of Amazon Web Services is Microsoft Azure. Though, Azure easily connects with Microsoft services like a jelly, even in AWS its so easy. And the best thing is due to its vast variety community …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS provides a vast array of services and, compared to Microsoft Azure licensing costs, is a cheaper alternative.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    If I talk about the product capabilities, I would say AWS is better than Microsoft Azure. It also provides excellent network and security services. Additionally, I would say the security and compliance of this product helps me to scale and innovate all my databases, into one …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    The particular services I am using in AWS is easier to set up and manage than Microsoft Azure. IBM Bluemix/Cloud previously has too many product beta and preview released along with their products. Microsoft also releases too many products in preview or beta.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS stands out in its ability to adapt technology more quickly. All the new features, first adapted by AWS, make it the market leader. The key metrics, such as MTTR, are among the best among all other cloud service providers. The AWS dashboard and analytics features are very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    Prefer Amazon Web Services over the competitors
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    Amazon Web Services is better among all of them due to its performance, stability, security and navigation. It effectively saves the cost and provides better facilities than the other competitors. It plays great role when it comes to user friendly interface. It also provided …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS has the largest market share and most established and over 200 services for diverse needs. AWS has a very power user interface and pay as you go work well that others. AWS has the by far largest network of data centers for low latency and high availability. The regular …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services

    Better global availability and use across industries.
    AWS has a great ecosystem of experts, developers, solution architects and it helps to get to know them at various AWS events across the world
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    The decision was made to go with AWS because of name recognition and familiarity by contractors we hired. I checked out Google Compute Engine a few years ago, and it did have similar option set, however Google in general was behind Amazon's offerings.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    We evaluated Azure, Goggle Cloud, and Amazon Web Services during our cloud computing solution decision. We needed the storage and a pre-installed version of a commercial product. As we were not highly demanding in performance, all candidates were sufficient. However, we found …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    At a past company we used Azure; I feel like AWS is always mentioned favorably in compare/contrast conversations regarding Azure specifically, and when I started this new company a couple of years ago, we decided to go with AWS as it seemed to have a near-pristine track record.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS is as good as any of the major cloud providers. I see a complete parity in this marketplace as innovations by one tend to be replicated by the others in short order. If you are looking to compare, or pilot, cloud hosting providers you must try AWS as they are a very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    OCI and Google Compute Engine are a bit cheaper than AWS but AWS has better chargeback and more granular monitoring of various KPIs. But at the same time, AWS has a learning curve while GCE especially is much easier to use. Microsoft Azur has a much better partner and developer …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS is very widely adopted by our development team and the industry. AWS is investing in new products and services, as well as innovating on existing offerings.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS, in my opinion, is the most mature and popular cloud. It provides the biggest number of services available and the provider which innovates the most.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    Since most of our clients are Office 365 users, Azure holds a lot of benefit in its integration possibilities. However, AWS is still less expensive and easier to manage in my experience. There will come a time though, that I'm sure we will move most clients to Azure. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS is the industry leader and is far ahead in terms of a feature rich product offering along with worldwide presence
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    AWS is Good for startups or FMCG customer but for FSI customer, their relationship is weak, hard to convince our client move to AWS
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Web Services
    We like the platform agnostic approach. At the time we selected it (some years back), the security standard was higher and the price point was lower, and the global reach was at least as strong. It was very easy to get started. For our business, we also looked at Akamai and …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Amazon Web Services dominate cloud service market as a de facto market leader in IaaS and PaaS industry. However, Microsoft, with its Azure solution, has proven to be a formidable challenger to Amazon in cloud service, and is slowly but surely closing in the gap. Legacy …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    I feel that Microsoft Azure typically outperforms Google Cloud Platform in hybrid cloud capabilities, integration aspects, and, primarily, security compliance features. Azure offered superior integration with Microsoft's enterprise software ecosystem, and it's second to none in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Mostly due to the ecosystem. I don't think there is anything in AWS that we would be missing out when using Microsoft Azure. We use Microsoft products on on-premise servers and also M365 / Office services that are well supported in Microsoft Azure. The pricing between AWS and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    AWS is good for linux virtual machines and mac virtual machines, Microsoft Azure doesn't do mac VMs. However, in my opinion Microsoft Azure is better in every other aspect, easier to use and just as cost effective.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Azure is more user friendly and provides much required scalability and flexibility.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    AWS is the most stable cloud options but Azure has done well in last few years and provides good options specifically for Microsoft customers and who are more familiar with Microsoft technologies like WINDOWS, MS SQL SERVER, GITHUB, VISUAL STUDIO etc. Google cloud is more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Ease of use. Multiple Data centers across the globe. Load management. Backup and recovery options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    We actually utilized multiple cloud stacks, depending upon the customer environment and need. Those that heavily used MS products (Office on-prem or 365), Teams, etc, found it a better fit, with easier integration, for their needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Integration with other Microsoft products makes Azure stand out quite a bit. However, if you need to use open source software and to integrate with Linux systems then AWS or Google Cloud might be better alternatives. Google did not even come close to Azure in terms of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    AWS and [Microsoft] Azure are in a class by themselves, no matter how you look at them or what sub-area or service you focus on. No other cloud provide can match the breadth and ability of these two. Nobody else has the market share either (for a reason). That being said, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Instead of above mentioned alternative we opted for Microsoft Azure because it is more powerful, reliable and pretty much a responsive environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    • Easy to use
    • Easy to Manage
    • Easy to Integrate
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    We do everything Microsoft and wanted the thing that would most easily be compatible with everything out of the gate. Pricing was comparable. It made sense to us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Integration with other Microsoft products makes Azure stand out quite a bit. But if your shop mostly runs open source and Linux then look at AWS or Google Cloud.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    To be honest despite UI the functionality is almost identical. It came to price and support package.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    There are lots of players in this space these days, but Microsoft and AWS are the two most visible and easiest to get connected with. We were using AWS first, and have been using both for some time, but have now converted entirely over to Azure just for the ease of management, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    As we are working mostly on .net projects and Microsoft has very nice integration available for the latest versions, we can get all the latest version for hosting at the earliest time. We can use the same in .Net Core. This should be a very well known product for our any .net …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Like I mentioned earlier, it is more user-friendly when compared to any of the other. It is more flexible with the system you are using that makes it easy to set up with the migration of data. If you can bear the extra price compared to AWS, Azure is more robust, works like a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Hosting providers are plentiful and all of them are very similar in functionality. Azure boasts a much more robust integration and management platform in my experience than AWS does and is years ahead of many of the smaller cloud providers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    MS was chosen due to the strong partner relationship that already existed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Windows Azure shines from a development perspective.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Azure PaaS platform was better suited for us over AWS (we are a hard core Microsoft shop)
    Incentivized
    SAP
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I have used but not evaluated some other products that are similar to SAP Business Technology Platform, like Microsoft Azure. The principle is the same: cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services. It offers …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Have not done a comparison yet
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform is much closer to SAP and provides ready made connectors etc., so the effort to implement was much lower.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform is easily connectable using standard solutions to the onpremise backend SAP systems. Services can be linked with each other and with SAP systems in a managed and secure way, while with the other products getting the data, access and networking …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    We selected SAP BTP mainly because our company is already heavily invested in SAP ERP.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Initially, SAP Business Technology Platform works hand in hand with S/4 HANA and the SAP product suite, but also can go and extra mile and integrate with other non-SAP products and services at hand. It's capable enough to understand the ERP use cases component and develop …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I selected SAP Business Technology Platform because it seamlessly integrates ERP and business applications, providing a clear and unified environment for data management and analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP Business Technology Platform provides the services in a kind of ready-to-use. There is no requirement to first configure a whole environment. It makes it easy to just use the services and create new solutions on top of that.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    We preferred to use SAP BTP over AWS here. In terms of cost, scalability, reliability it was an easy decision for our organization
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    As such SAP Business Technology Platform (Hana cloud) is great but Snowflake does a good job on scalability and cost side. SAP should think about more innovative ways of calculating cost.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    the integration capabilities for SAP solutions are a big plus for BTP
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP BTP brings a "business" context to everything. As a result, it is well suited for a business audience. But they often lack technological know-how and so adoption becomes difficult.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Good integration into the SAP ecosystems and lesser complexity compared to the native hyperscaler platforms such as AWS or Azure.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I felt API gateway is superior when it comes to DevOps integration and the number of connectors and customization, while SAP ChatBot really is a cool product and can easily triumph over AWS Chatbot or azure ChatBot. Even Sap Analytics cloud can be a real competitor for power …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Way ahead in the game.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Similarly, also used MS Azure. If you compare, both have pros and cons. I think it really depends on the scenario to choose the right platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Ability to develop and customise to handle complex business processes. It's cost effective despite being a bit more and time taking to implement, as it enhances labor savings. Not just in customer service, it has similar benefits in finance, warehousing, delivery and web …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    92%
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    97%
    Would buy again
    808 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Amazon Web Services
    8.6
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Microsoft Azure
    8.4
    27 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
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    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.273 Ratings8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.974 Ratings8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.470 Ratings8.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.567 Ratings8.225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.774 Ratings8.326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.367 Ratings8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.273 Ratings8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.875 Ratings8.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation8.126 Ratings8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform
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    Amazon Web Services
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    Ratings
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    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    818 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0782 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1780 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings00 Ratings7.4739 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7655 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings00 Ratings7.6748 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0735 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9723 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings00 Ratings7.7631 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings00 Ratings7.0714 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings6.7633 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings00 Ratings7.4677 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (91 ratings)
    8.7
    (96 ratings)
    8.4
    (771 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    7.9
    (751 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    -
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    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (24 ratings)
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    7.3
    (503 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    -
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    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    -
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    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    2.3
    (2 ratings)
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    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft AzureSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    This is something that is actually common across most cloud providers. A comprehensive understanding of one's use cases, constraints and future directions is key to determining if you even need a cloud solution. If you are a 2-person startup developing something with a best-scenario audience of 1k DAU in a year, you would very likely best served by a dirt-cheap dedicated Linux server somewhere (and your options to graduate to a cloud solution will still be open). If, however, you are a bigger fish, and/or you are actively considering build-vs-buy decisions for complicated, highly-loaded, six-figure requests per minute systems, global loadbalancing, extreme growth projections - then MAYBE you solve all or part of it with a cloud provider. And depending on your taste for risk, reliability, flexibility, track record - it might be AWS.
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    Microsoft
    Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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    SAP
    If you want to use a well-designed SAP technology to shift into the cloud, you will be more than satisfied with the BTP services overall. There are some improvements for beginners to help them get a better overview of what to do and how to start with their account. My recommendation is to take a foundation training course from the SAP learning hub to prepare for the first steps.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • During the month-end, we experience high resource utilization; however, with AWS's scalability, we can effectively tackle the peak load.
    • With AWS IAM, we don't need to set up complete infrastructure for identity and access management, as AWS provides end-to-end IAM services.
    • With AWS, development has become very easy as it's very quick to spin up and destroy the environment, which saves costs.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
    • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
    • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
    • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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    SAP
    • It is very easy to use.
    • All the documentation around it is geared towards the enterprise use case, unlike some other hyperscalers' platforms.
    • The SAP Business Technology Platform is very good because it's got the SAP customer and their business processes in mind. Probably my favorite thing about it is how easy it is to get up and running with a new use case and how well it natively connects to an SAP solution.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
    • Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
    • From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.
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    Microsoft
    • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
    • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
    • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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    SAP
    • The Automation Integration service has some outdated workflows
    • New services should be available as entitlements as soon as they are released for a particular region without having to buy them from SAP for zero dollars
    • Any subaccount should be able to change the IAS tenant. Currently, if you set it up for a particular IAS, you cannot change to another tenant and are required to recreate the services in a new subaccount.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    We are almost entirely satisfied with the service. In order to move off it, we'd have to build for ourselves many of the services that AWS provides and the cost would be prohibitive. Although there are cost savings and security benefits to returning to the colo facility, we could never afford to do it, and we'd hate to give up the innovation and constant cycle of new features that AWS gives us.
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    Microsoft
    Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    AWS offers a wide range of powerful services that cater to various business needs which is significant strength. The ability to scale resources on-demand is a major advantage making it suitable for businesses of all sizes. The sheer volume of options and configurations can be overwhelming for new users leading to a steep learning curve. While functional the AWS management console can feel cluttered and less intuitive compared to some competitors which can hinder navigation. Although some documentation lacks clarity and practical examples which can frustrate users trying to implement specific solutions.
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    Microsoft
    As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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    SAP
    Okay, so the content that we have built on the platform is limited to specific testing on the iFlows within integration suite. The visualization layer is nice to use and helps with the design elements, however with developers that are more used to markup languages, it doesn't have the same CLI type feel when you want it. Perhaps the majority of users are that deep, but other platforms have a better CLI type developer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    Availability is very good, with the exception of occasional spectacular outages.
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    Microsoft
    It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    AWS does not provide the raw performance that you can get by building your own custom infrastructure. However, it is often the case that the benefits of specialized, high-performance hardware do not necessarily outweigh the significant extra cost and risk. Performance as perceived by the user is very different from raw throughput.
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    Microsoft
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    SAP
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The customer support of Amazon Web Services are quick in their responses. I appreciate its entire team, which works amazingly, and provides professional support. AWS is a great tool, indeed, to provide customers a suitable way to
    immediately search for their compatible software's and also to guide them in a
    good direction. Moreover, this product is a good suggestion for every type of
    company because of its affordability and ease of use.
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    Microsoft
    We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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    SAP
    The biggest problem we ran into was communication between SAP Business Technology Platform and onsite resources. Unfortunately our SAP Business Technology Platform and Cloud systems are under different customer numbers. I constantly had to open tickets under each customer number because I was unsure of where the issue lied. And having to create a dummy ticket for our ECC systems to open the ECC connections for another ticket under the Cloud customer is a pain.
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The API's were very well documented and was Janova's main point of entry into the services.
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    Microsoft
    As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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    SAP
    Having a full cloud native environment for devlopment of microservices and digitals solutions while having standardized access to our core data on SAP via cloud connector is one of the main benefits of using BTP over others hypervisors. BTP is the standard hyperscaler as soon as something relies on data from SAP systems in our company now
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Web Services fits best for all levels of organisations like startup, mid level or enterprise. The services are easy to use and doesn't require a high level of understanding as you can learn via blogs or youtube videos. AWS is Reasonable in cost as the plan is pay as you use.
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    Microsoft
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
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    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Using Amazon Web Services has allowed us to develop and deploy new SAAS solutions quicker than we did when we used traditional web hosting. This has allowed us to grow our service offerings to clients and also add more value to our existing services.
    • Having AWS deployed has also allowed our development team to focus on delivering high-quality software without worrying about whether our servers will be able to handle the demand. Since AWS allows you to adjust your server needs based on demand, we can easily assign a faster server instance to ease and improve service without the client even knowing what we did.
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    Microsoft
    • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
    • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
    • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service