SAP HANA with more cloud options

Since my last blog post on SAP's innovation spree about SAP HANA and then SAP HANA on AWS, SAP continues to further expand its strong application service portfolio by joining hands with more cloud vendors. After launching its HANA cloud services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), SAP now provides SAP HANA One Developer edition on KT ucloud, CloudShare and Portugal Telecom’s SmartCloudPT. And these service providers seems to be providing the SAP HANA as a Service (sounds interesting !!) even at lower price marks than AWS.

The detailed list of provided services and charges are available here: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31722

But for a quick reference, a summary of cloud service offerings (taken from above mentioned link) are provided in below table:

Cloud Partner	Description	Instance Types	Price
Amazon Web Services	Amazon provides a secure, scalable, and highly elastic cloud infrastructure for running SAP HANA. With AWS there is no need to procure IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance, but it can be done within minutes. It can also be scaled based on workload or on-demand, and pay only for the resources used. There is no SAP charge for the SAP HANA One developer edition license, only AWS account usual charges apply. The AWS flexible and open platform supports a wide variety languages and operating systems so you can choose the development platform or programming model that best suits your needs. Utilize other AWS cloud infrastructure services as well as a host of other third-party development tools already available on AWS. AWS provides a massive global cloud infrastructure that allows you to quickly innovate, experiment and iterate.	2 vCPU's, 17.1GB RAM 154GB disk 4 vCPU's, 34.2GB RAM 154GB disk 8 vCPU's, 68.4GB RAM 154GB disk	starting from $0.55 / hour
CloudShare	Get SAP HANA One, developer edition in the cloud – with CloudShare. Flat $137 per month cost - no overages, no time limits Includes SAP HANA Server and pre-configured developer environment (24 GB RAM). No IT, no VPN are required	4 vCPU's, 22 GB, 150 GB disk Plus one remote desktop with Windows 7, 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB disk (HANA studio, client, additional tools)	$137 / month
SmartCloudPT	SAP HANA One, developer edition in SmartCloudPT provides simple and immediate access to a configured SAP HANA development environment, with community support from SAP, running on the enterprise-grade SmartCloudPT infrastructure. The service fee is prepaid using a credit card and can be renewed at the end of each month. Fixed monthly pricing for the service starts at 159€/month for a 16GB RAM cloud instance. Unlike other public clouds, pricing is fixed per month and fully inclusive, with no hidden costs or surcharges! All environments run on the latest, enterprise-grade infrastructure and come with 24/7 instance availability.	4 vCPU's, 16GB RAM, 200GB disk 6 vCPU's, 32GB RAM, 300GB disk	starting from €159 / month
KT ucloud biz	Take a personal SAP HANA One, developer edition on kt ucloud within 5 minutes Can be accessible all over the world, geographically very close to east and south east Asia On-demand provisioning of HANA VM instance to the maximum size of 16vcore/128G Both hourly and monthly payment can be available as requested 4VM-clustered HANA landscape as well as 1VM (16vcore/120G) on one physical host is now available	2 vCPU's, 16GB RAM, 90GB disk 4 vCPU's, 32GB RAM, 140GB disk 8 vCPU's, 64GB RAM, 230GB disk 16 vCPU's, 128GB RAM, 420GB disk 16 vCPU's, 120GB RAM, 420GB disk on dedicated server	starting from $0.286 / hour

 

Also,  very good comparison of pricing between SAP HANA appliance vs SAP HANA service on AWS cloud is made by Bill Ramos in his interesting blog post here.
This comparison is based on the fact that SAP HANA One Developer edition is provided FREE of charge by SAP for 1 month trial basis. So there are no charges for using SAP HANA on cloud, only the standard cloud usage charges applies.