AWS CloudFormation vs. SAP on IBM Cloud

SAP on IBM Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudFormation	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…	$0
SAP on IBM Cloud	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	SAP on IBM Cloud helps businesses maximize efficiency by running their SAP applications on IBM Cloud. Businesses can use SAP on IBM Cloud to move from on-premises solutions to cloud-based with higher availability, flexibility, and performance, as well as simpler disaster recovery processes.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

SAP on IBM Cloud

Editions & Modules

Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account: $0.00
Handler Operation: $0.0009
per handler operation

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudFormation	SAP on IBM Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudFormation	SAP on IBM Cloud

Features

AWS CloudFormation

SAP on IBM Cloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	SAP on IBM Cloud 9.0 Ratings 11% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	SAP on IBM Cloud
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.5 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	IBM Power Virtual Server Score 7.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	SAP on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	SAP on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the Cloning Cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the same virtual hardware, installed software, and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the same virtual hardware, installed software, and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource. Management guide. For information virtual hardware, installed software cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the same virtual hardware, installed software, and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There are some specific scenarios where SAP on IBM Cloud is less appropriate. For example, if a company is looking for a platform to run small or experimental applications, then SAP on IBM Cloud may not be the best option. Additionally, if a company is looking for a very customized or tailored solution, then SAP on IBM Cloud may also be less appropriate. However, for most businesses who are looking for a secure, scalable, and reliable platform to run their business applications, SAP on IBM Cloud is an excellent option. Incentivized Mike Koolwijk Onlinemarketing consulent Read full review
Pros	IaC, transactional on top of that Support for "mainstream" general programming languages Sharable IaC "snippets" that can setup standardized environments for individuals quickly OOP techniques are available thanks to OOP languages Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reaching multiple business data across various platforms Analytics are the best and effective Intelligent capabilities and reporting tools are excellent Easy to manage project Incentivized Veronica Derrick Automation Engineer Read full review
Cons	Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved. Slow to create, delete or update. Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Migrating SAP workloads to Cloud is not easy especially to new users. Data recovery if made easy it will be superb. It is complex to maintain Clouds data security by new users. Incentivized Daisy Cooper Restaurant Manager Read full review
Usability	It's easy enough to get a shared template & apply it. You don't even have to download-then-upload or copy-and-paste, a publicly-accessible url works. Diving deeper, it has enough powerful capabilities to make the life of a platform / DevOps engineer bearable. However, you need equally deep knowledge to troubleshoot issues, when they inevitably pop up. This is the same for all IaC technologies, as they are additional abstraction layers on top of the native API provided by the cloud providers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	It takes time to respond and never gives good solutions to the problems, since it seems somewhat robotic with its automatic messages, then when we speak directly with the support, it never gives a solution to our problems, we have to find other ways. Incentivized Hannah Simons Senior Reporting Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Since the product I'm involved is primarily hosted on AWS we use CloudFormation but in some other products where we have hybrid cloud deployments we prefer Terraform which is opensource. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I have tested out both Microsoft Azure and SAP on IBM Cloud and can confidently say that SAP on IBM Cloud is the obvious choice. The key advantages of SAP on IBM Cloud compared to Microsoft Azure are that IBM Cloud offers free unlimited access to tech support, provides higher object storage space as well as unlimited private virtual servers. Incentivized Ausrine S. RPA Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	+ We can standup a VPC in minutes - It took a lot of inital time to set up + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We used the tool to generate great data insights. Integration with multiple data sources. Powerful data access and data visualization. Reporting capabilities can not be compared. Incentivized Hannah Caleb Quality Engineer Read full review
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