AWS Auto Scaling vs. SAP Business Technology Platform

It is well suited for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. If there is unpredictability in the demand it is very useful. But it is a over kill if demand is consistent.

SAP Business Technology Platform is highly suitable for AI agentic development, particularly when workflows require dynamic orchestration, modular service integration, and real-time decisioning. However, it may be less effective in environments where backend services are fully encapsulated and do not expose interfaces or events that SAP Business Technology Platform can interact with—limiting its ability to orchestrate or extend those services meaningfully.

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• Set policies to add more instances when CPU utilization exceeds.
• Prevents downtime, as we don't need to stop the servers.
• Auto Scaling group can be setup for different types of apps.

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• Services are operated by SAP with outstanding support, always giving a helping hand even if it is custom code or solution provided on the platform
• Services are easily connectable via standard approach to our backend SAP systems in SAP Rise/HEC
• Secure access using identities from our existing identity management helping us to safeguard data security from within SAP systems up to custom frontend applications

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• Update code and configuration when the number of servers is always changing
• How will user-uploaded content make it to new servers

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• For IAG, if there are multiple roles it can be overwhelming from an UX standpoint.
• Controlling and identifying shadow user creation is not as intuitive.
• Unlocking admin rights to an environment seems very easy if having elevated permissions, this seems like something that should have more controls rather than being able to unlock admin rights yourself.

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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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We use AWS auto scaling for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. I gave the rating 10 because it really does help you to handle the sudden spike in number of requests.

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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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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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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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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Used for the below reasons:

• Easy to implement and use
• Pay per use, cost savings
• Automate and build scaling plans
• Automate performance and workload

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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 intelligent applications to satisfy the users.

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• optimized the cost effectiveness
• save lot of money which help the organization to use it in effective areas
• Not applicable for all use cases.It is specific use cases and business problems

• Still using traditional devops instead of using build. Very high cost in development.
• Still using Node.js instead of REST ABAP. Additional cost of resources. Migration of current CAP to RAP will be costly and do not have a business case yet. Continue with multi-language is costly.
• Integration suite is power but the migration from PIPO to IS has been more challenging than being advertised.

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