Cloud Computing from SAP and other Hyperscalers

[KishoreKumarV]

The Term “Cloud Computing” exists in IT Industry as early as 1996. The acceleration of the Technology growth has made the realization of cloud computing possible to the highest extend in a shortest time frame. Today the cloud-native and distributed systems have become inherent part of our life. The shopping experience from Amazon or the binge-watching on Netflix wouldn’t have been possible without cloud computing. With this accelerated technology growth, the notion of competition has become a relationship of past and the state of ally among the Infrastructure and Software manufactures has become a norm with the only notion of providing superior customer experience to all.

SAP being a global company, our customers have a demand to offer their solutions to their global customers with different legal regulations across the globe. So, relying on a single hyperscaler may not be possible as some regions doesn’t have a preferred vendor coverage. To solve this challenge, SAP had embraced Hyperscalers with the Multi-Cloud strategy to offer our customers the flexibility of Infrastructure of their choice and offer our cloud solutions in all possible regions across the globe. Now our Customers and Partners have the full advantage to mix and match the different hyperscaler services of their choice alongside the unified, business-centric, and open Business Technology Platform Services (BTP).

What is Business Technology Platform?
SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is a unified, open and business-centric platform that runs on all these cloud infrastructures and 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.

The final decision on the choice of region, hyperscaler, service, etc. should be primarily based on the business demand, regulation requirements and TCO considerations. However, with this blog post, I would like to emphasize the availability of equivalent, innovative, and best of breed offerings from SAP BTP and related SAP Cloud Solution. This list is certainly not complete as there are numerous PaaS capabilities that exists on BTP and on the mentioned cloud platforms. I am only trying to scratch the surface to stimulate your curiosity.

Disclaimer:
This blog post is a humble attempt to share the knowledge on SAP’s cloud capabilities of BTP and other cloud service offerings in parallel to the Hyperscaler’s equivalent to act only as a starting point of reference (mind map) for someone who wants to build their know-how on SAP Cloud services given their past Hyperscaler background. This blog post is not intended for any kind of comparison and cannot be made liable for the equivalence that is drawn between different hyperscaler offerings and to that of SAP. The contents of this blog post should not be used as a base for making any legal or contractual decision. Here “equivalent” only means closely related in my personal view and not SAP’s official position. There is no guarantee on the full feature scope or one to one replacement. For details of the exact feature, refer to the Feature Scope Description of individual services and talk to your Account Executive or Customer Engagement Executive before making any purchase decision.

Cloud Computing		Hyperscalers			SAP
Category	Sub-Category	AWS	Azure	GCP
Compute	Virtual Machine	Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure Virtual Machines	Google Compute Engine
	Container Service	Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)	Azure Kubernetes Service	Google Kubernetes Engine	SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime project "Gardener"
		Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)	Azure Container Service	Google Cloud Run	SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime
	Serverless (Function as a Service)	Lambda	Azure Functions	Google Cloud Functions	SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime "Serverless"
	Scalability	Auto Scaling Group (ASG)	Azure Autoscale	Compute Engine Autoscaler	Application Autoscaler
Storage	Object-Store	Simple Storage Service (S3)	Azure Blob Storage	Google Cloud Storage	Object Store on SAP BTP
	File-Store	Elastic File Storage (EFS)	Azure File Storage	Google Filestore
	Block/Disk-Store	Elastic Block Store (EBS)	Azure Disk Storage	Google Persistent Disk
	In-Memory	ElastiCache	Azure Cache for Redis	Google Memorystore	Redis on SAP BTP, hyperscaler option
	Physical Containers	Snowball	Azure Databox	Transfer Appliance
		Snowball Edge
		Snowmobile	Azure Databox Heavy
	Cold Storage	S3 Glacier	Azure Archive Storage
Networking	Virtual Cloud	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Network (vNet)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
	Firewall	Security Groups		VPC Service Controls
	Gateway	NAT Instance
		NAT Gateway
	Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)	Azure Load Balancer	Cloud Load Balancer
	CDN	CloudFront	Azure CDN	Cloud CDN
	DNS Routing	Route53	Azure DNS	Cloud DNS	SAP Custom Domain Service
				Traffic Director
	Security Access	Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Azure Active Directory	Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Authorization and Trust Management Service
		Cognito		Cloud Identity	SAP Cloud Identity Services - Authentication and Provisioning
Database	RDS	Aurora
		MySQL	Azure Database for MySQL	Cloud SQL for MySQL
		MariaDB	Azure Database for MariaDB
		PostgreSQL	Azure Database for PSQL	Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL on SAP BTP, hyperscaler option
		Oracle
		Microsoft SQL Server	Azure SQL Database	Cloud SQL for SQL Server	SAP HANA Service for SAP BTP
				Cloud Spanner
	Analytics	Redshift	Azure Synapse Analytics	Google BigQuery	SAP Analytics Cloud
		Quickshift	Microsoft Power BI	Google Looker
		Big Data	Azure Data Lake	BigQuery Serverless DW	SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
	NoSQL	DynamoDB	Azure Cosmos DB
			Azure Table Storage	Cloud Bigtable (key/value)
				Firestore (document)
	In-Memory			Memorystore In-Memory	SAP HANA Cloud
Application Integration	Queue	Simple Queue Service (SQS)	Azure Queue Storage	Google Pub/Sub
	Event Bus	EventBridge	Azure Service Bus	Google Eventarc	SAP Event Mesh
	Notification	Simple Notification Service (SNS)	Azure Notifications Hub	Google Pub/Sub	SAP Alert Notification Service for SAP BTP
	Streaming	Kinesis	Azure Stream Analytics
Development Tools	Editor	Cloud9	Azure VS Code	Google Cloud Shell online code editor	SAP Business Application Studio
				Cloud code / Cloud Code for IntelliJ
	SDK	AWS Software Developmnt Kit (SDK)	Azure SDK	Google Cloud SDK	SAP Cloud SDK
	CLI	AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)	Azure CLI	Google Cloud SDK	SAP BTP Command Line Interface
			Azure Powershell
		AWS CloudShell	Azure CloudShell		SAP BTP Cockpit Terminal
	Platform as a Service (PaaS)	Elastic BeanStalk	Azure App Services	Google App Engine	SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime
		AWS Amplify		Firebase
	Gateway	API Gateway	Azure API Apps	Cloud Endpoints API Gateway	SAP API Management
			Azure API Management	Apigee API Platform/Management
	CI/CD	AWS CodePipeline	Azure Pipelines	Cloud Build	SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery
				Tekton
				Container/Artifact Registry
	Automation	Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
		CloudFormation	Azure Deployment Manager	Cloud Deployment Manager
	Hybrid	Storage Gateway
		AWS Direct Connect	Azure ExpressRoute	Cloud Interconnect	SAP Connectivity Service
	Portal	AWS Console	Azure Portal	Google Cloud Console	SAP BTP Cockpit
Services	Monitoring	CloudWatch	Azure Monitor Logs	Cloud Monitoring	SAP Monitoring Service for SAP BTP
				Cloud Logging	SAP Appication Logging Service for SAP BTP
		AWS X-Ray		Cloud Trace	Dynatrace Agent Activation for SAP BTP
	Governance	CloudTrail	Audit Logs in Azure Active Directory	Cloud Audit Logs	SAP Audit Log Service
	Batch Operations	AWS Batch	Azure Batch	Cloud Scheduler	SAP Job Scheduling Service
	Workflow	AWS Simple Workflow Service (SWF)	Azure Logic Apps	Workflows	SAP Workflow Management
				Cloud Tasks
	Low-Code-No-Code (LCNC)				SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
		Amazon Honeycode	Microsoft Power Apps on Azure	Google AppSheet	SAP AppGyver
					SAP Rapid Application Development by Mendix
	IoT	AWS IoT Core	Azure IoT Hub	Cloud IoT	SAP Internet of Things
					SAP Edge Services
	Cross/Multi-Cloud		Azure Arc	Anthos
AI/ML	Platform	Amazon Machine Learning	Azure Machine Learning	Vertex AI	SAP Data Intelligence
		Amazon SageMaker	Azure AI Infrastructure	TensorFlow	SAP AI Business Services
		Amazon Lex	QnAMaker	DialogFlow	SAP Conversational AI
Many More	...	...	...	...	...

P.S. Do you find something that I had misunderstood or mapped here wrongly by mistake, please let me know. I will correct and update this blog post. Happy to learn from your expertise.

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References:
• Google Cloud – based on the preparation content for “Google Cloud Digital Leader”
• AWS – based on the preparation content for “AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate” & “AWS Certified Developer - Associate”
• Azure – based on the preparation content for “Azure Fundamentals”
• SAP – based on the preparation content for SAP Business Technology Platform - https://open.sap.com/courses?topic=SAP+Business+Technology+Platform in general and other specific courses like the ones mentioned below and many more
• “OpenSAP SAP Business Technology Platforrm in a Nutshell” - https://open.sap.com/courses/btp1
• “OpenSAP SAP Cloud Platforrm Essentials” - https://open.sap.com/courses/cp1-3
• “Microlearning OpenSAP Expert BTP” - https://microlearning.opensap.com/channel/Expert+SAP+Business+Technology+Platform/