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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

    $35

    per month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.4 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
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No Charge
    $0
    Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
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    Amazon AWS
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    549 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    388 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    545 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    284 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    412 Answers
    Features
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.4
    480 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces8.119 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Scalability7.229 Ratings7.8459 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.128 Ratings7.1439 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.223 Ratings7.2393 Ratings
    Platform access control8.128 Ratings7.4443 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.128 Ratings7.8432 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.228 Ratings7.7429 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.129 Ratings7.3372 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.128 Ratings6.8419 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.126 Ratings6.9365 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.127 Ratings7.3402 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (29 ratings)
    8.3
    (488 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.7
    (477 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    7.5
    (312 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    I have been using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for more than 5 years, and it has made our life so easy and hassle-free. Here are some scenarios where it excels -
    • I have been using different AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Serverless, etc. And Elastic Beanstalk makes our lives easier by tieing each service together and making the deployment a smooth process.
    • N number of integrations with different CI/CD pipelines make this most engineer's favourite service.
    • Scalability & Security comes with the service, which makes it the absolute perfect product for your business.
    Personally, I haven't found any situations where it's not appropriate for the use cases it can be used. The pricing is also very cost-effective.
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    SAP
    SAP Business Technology Platform offers to run the cloud application without worries about availability and accessibility. This is helping us to enable the services that are really suited for us. For example, We have Cloud Identity Services that offer the capability to manage identity directory and also Identity provisioning functionality. Both functionalities helped us to manage the SSO and also enabled the auto-provisioning.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Getting a project set up using the console or CLI is easy compared to other [computing] platforms.
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports a variety of programming languages so teams can experiment with different frameworks but still use the same compute platform for rapid prototyping.
    • Common application architectures can be referenced as patterns during project [setup].
    • Multiple environments can be deployed for an application giving more flexibility for experimentation.
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    SAP
    • 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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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Limited to the frameworks and configurations that AWS supports. There is no native way to use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Go application behind Nginx, for example.
    • It's not always clear what's changed on an underlying system when AWS updates an EB stack; the new version is announced, but AWS does not say what specifically changed in the underlying configuration. This can have unintended consequences and result in additional work in order to figure out what changes were made.
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    SAP
    • Have specialized connectors for specific industry use case application
    • Have seamless integration with data platform to create data application on the fly this includes both SAP and non-SAP products
    • Create offline SDK and code editing studios to ease the development issues when working remotely
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    As our technology grows, it makes more sense to individually provision each server rather than have it done via beanstalk. There are several reasons to do so, which I cannot explain without further diving into the architecture itself, but I can tell you this. With automation, you also loose the flexibility to morph the system for your specific needs. So if you expect that in future you need more customization to your deployment process, then there is a good chance that you might try to do things individually rather than use an automation like beanstalk.
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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
    The overall usability is good enough, as far as the scaling, interactive UI and logging system is concerned, could do a lot better when it comes to the efficiency, in case of complicated node logics and complicated node architectures. It can have better software compatibility and can try to support collaboration with more softwares
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    SAP
    Overall, I feel it is build toward as an SAP centric platform. Which is very proper direction for SAP as it is their competitive advantage. However, as a customer, I like to see the cost of the services to come down with the advance of underlay hardware capabilities. Licensing model can be streamlined for easier budgeting and consumption.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    As I described earlier it has been really cost effective and really easy for fellow developers who don't want to waste weeks and weeks into learning and manually deploying stuff which basically takes month to create and go live with the Minimal viable product (MVP). With AWS Beanstalk within a week a developer can go live with the Minimal viable product easily.
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    SAP
    I give it 9/10 because its customer support team is responsive and knowledgeable, providing clear guidance on complex issues. We contacted them several times; I want to give one example. When we had a problem with third-party integration, we reached out to them about the issue, and they provided a tailored solution for this.
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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    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
    - Do as many experiments as you can before you commit on using beanstalk or other AWS features. - Keep future state in mind. Think through what comes next, and if that is technically possible to do so. - Always factor in cost in terms of scaling. - We learned a valuable lesson when we wanted to go multi-region, because then we realized many things needs to change in code. So if you plan on using this a lot, factor multiple regions.
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    SAP
    1. Sometimes the licensing doesn’t make sense, e.g., Difficult to understand the license for ABAP cloud runtime. 2. When SAP Business Technology Platform workflow cost is very high but process automation which offers more features has less cost.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud offering also compels us to use it, since integration is simpler. We have also evaluated Microsoft Azure and gave up trying to get an extremely basic implementation up and running after a few days of struggling with its mediocre user interface and constant issues with documentation being outdated. The authentication model is also badly broken and trying to manage resources is a pain. One cannot compare Azure with anything that Amazon has created in the cloud space since Azure really isn't a mature platform and we are always left wanting when we have to interface with it.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • till now we had not Calculated ROI as the project is still evolving and we had to keep on changing the environment implementation
    • it meets our purpose of quick deployment as compared to on-premises deployment
    • till now we look good as we also controlled our expenses which increased suddenly in the middle of deployment activity
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    SAP
    • Infusing Generative AI capabilities easily into our solutions with existing talent with minimal learning curve, has been very impactful. We have been able resolve several challenges for our clients with AI capabilities, that we could not, previously.
    • Integration Suite is quite extensive in capabilities for bringing together the IT landscape into a single ecosystem.
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