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SAP HANA Cloud is a multi-cloud database as a service (DBaaS) that empowers customers to store data, tier data, and ensure that high-value data is accessible whenever needed. The  SAP HANA Cloud engine can be used to develop all the power applications that an organization needs, or it can simply connect any applications already in use.  

SAP Cloud Platform is a platform as a service (Paas) for the development, integration, and operation of cloud services. SAP HANA Cloud is a database as a service (DBaaS) that is offered, provisioned, and managed by the SAP Cloud Platform. 

SAP HANA Cloud is a cloud-native implementation of SAP HANA. . We encourage all SAP HANA Service users to migrate to SAP HANA Cloud. The self-service migration tool included in SAP HANA Cloud makes this easy.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud runs on SAP HANA Cloud, but these are separate solutions. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is focused on advanced modeling capabilities and collaboration with business users of all technical levels. SAP HANA Cloud, as a DBaaS, is focused on data management strategies.

SAP BW can access SAP HANA Cloud and the data lake as a federated source. You can also connect from SAP HANA Cloud to SAP BW, depending on your needs.

Some companies opt to connect their SAP BW to SAP HANA Cloud to extend their on-premise investment with cloud data storage.

SAP HANA Cloud is a database as a service. SAP manages part of this service, like the complete hardware setup and other cloud-native aspects. Customers get one super admin database user and can then create customized roles and permissions that fit their organization.

You will have access to the SAP HANA Cockpit, a tool for administering and monitoring your SAP HANA database, within SAP HANA Cloud. Here, you can monitor various performance metrics, like CPU, memory, response time, disk I/O, and network to confirm contention on infrastructure. 

Yes, there is a cf command line for provisioning.

Please go to this page and register for the free 30-day trial. After providing your information, you’ll be sent a confirmation email to begin your trial. In addition to the trial, you’ll be provided with useful hands-on materials to quickly get started.

After the 30-day trial is over, you’ll be given the chance to renew your trial period twice. After 90 days, you can start a new trial, but any data you created on your previous trial instance will be deleted and cannot be recovered.

The configuration of your SAP HANA Cloud trial instance is 30GB of memory, 2vCPUs, and 120GB of storage. You can only have one database and one data lake instance in your SAP HANA Cloud trial account. The SAP HANA Cloud trial offers you to experience the entire feature scope.

SAP HANA Cloud can be added to any existing SAP Cloud Platform trial account by following these steps. If you already use other SAP Cloud Platform services, those will not be affected by the SAP HANA Cloud trial.

Elasticity means that SAP HANA Cloud can adjust the allocated compute/storage resource consumption depending on the actual workload. Resource adjustment in SAP HANA Cloud can be achieved via a self-service.

The native storage extension is enabled by default in an SAP HANA Cloud instance. In the launch version of SAP HANA Cloud, data in native storage extension is managed by the user. You still need to explicitly specify tables/partitions/columns to be page loadable to take advantage of native storage extension. In the future, there will be also the ability to provision incremental disk storage to increase native storage extension capacity. In a later update, we plan to automate data management in native storage extension. However, you will be always able to control the native storage extension. 

There are lower prices and lower total cost of ownership compared to other offerings. That’s because SAP HANA Cloud introduces a cloud-native database architecture that directly benefits from the cost-efficiency of hyperscaler’s infrastructure.

Use the cost estimator tool to see approximately what you can expect to pay.

SAP HANA Cloud is consumable via SAP Cloud Platform only. 

The minimum size for an SAP HANA Cloud instance is 30GB memory and 120GB storage (with or without data). To enable the ScriptServer for an SAP HANA Cloud instance, you need a minimum of at least 3 vCPUs or 45GB of memory.

For data virtualization, SAP HANA Cloud supports many adapters from SAP HANA smart data access/SAP HANA smart data integration on-premises. Additionally, SAP HANA Cloud supports data virtualization from AWS Athena (S3) and Google BigQuery.

The SAP HANA Cloud adapters are different from the Open Connectors in SAP Cloud Platform. However, SAP HANA Cloud provides an SAP HANA smart data integration adapter that integrates with the Open Connectors framework in SAP Cloud Platform.

SAP HANA Cloud uses two replication modes: Remote Table Replication (RTR) for HANA-HANA and SAP HANA smart data integration replication for HANA-AnyDB. RTR comes with its own logging and SAP HANA smart data integration relies on the adapter capabilities for the corresponding remote database (and if the remote DB supports a DB logging API).  

You gain secure access to on-premises data sources with SAP HANA smart data integration DP Agent. The Cloud Connector is planned for a future release.

SAP HANA Cloud can connect to S3 and ingest data.  We federate with AWS Athena to access S3.

SAP HANA Cloud can also ingest data directly from S3 via the built-in data lake.

Yes. 

No, this feature is not yet available. 

SAP HANA Cloud provides various performance analysis tools with the SAP HANA Cockpit. There, you can analyze problematic workloads or queries in your application.

SAP HANA CDS is no longer supported in SAP HANA Cloud. The recommended development model for SAP HANA Cloud is the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.

There are no changes for developers with SAP Cloud Platform CF concerning the application runtime. For a list of changes concerning SAP HANA Cloud, please refer to SAP note 2868742.

The data lake is included and no additional license is necessary. Consumption is measured based on capacity units, so your subscribed capacity units are used based on what instances you provision and how long they are running. 

Yes, this is the case. 

Yes, SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA’s SQL engine can process data being stored in the data lake. Nevertheless, multi-model processing will only be available within SAP HANA Cloud and the SAP HANA core engine. You will be able to access the data lake through virtual tables, but the expectation is that performance will not be good if analyzing large amounts of data.

Multi-model analytics natively in the SAP HANA Cloud data lake is presently not available.

Data is loaded into data lake row at a time via traditional SQL DML. Or, you can bulk load data from an object store (eg., Azure Storage, S3) using the LOAD TABLE statement.

SAP HANA and IQ have been working together for many years, and many optimizations have been made in the SAP HANA smart data access communications between the two. One example is that IQ and SAP HANA can exchange data in larger, more easily processed chunks (ITABS) than a standard SAP HANA smart data access connection to a third-party library, which would only exchange data row by row. These functionalities are also available in the SAP HANA Cloud data lake.

Data Hub/Data Intelligence can connect to SAP HANA Cloud as a data source and destination, so you have the full range of machine learning capabilities available. 

Yes. When the data lake is provisioned, the corresponding remote source is created in the HANA database automatically.

SAP HANA Service will continue to be supported, but SAP HANA Cloud is the next evolution when it comes to new capabilities.

SAP HANA Cloud represents SAP’s state of the art solution for cloud data management. However, we will continue supporting SAP HANA Service for current customers in accordance with existing contracts. Apart from that, SAP is fully committed to assisting SAP HANA Service customers during their transition to SAP HANA Cloud with both the technical support and the license migration. Read this blog post from one of our product managers to learn more about the benefits of migrating.

Migrating to SAP HANA Cloud from SAP HANA Service offers several benefits, such as improved scalability, access to the built-in data lake, significantly lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), and much more. With the self-service migration tool, it’s easy to migrate your data to SAP HANA Cloud.

Who is eligible to use the self-service migration tool?

If you are currently using the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, you can already migrate to SAP HANA Cloud by taking advantage of the free, self-service migration tool. All SAP HANA Service users are entitled to use the migration service free of charge.

First, we recommend reading this guide that tells you everything you need to know about the tool. To get started with the migration itself, you can find the self-service migration tool within the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. Go to your Space, then, on the left-hand side menu, click on SAP HANA Cloud Migrations.

If you are currently using the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, you can already migrate to SAP HANA Cloud by taking advantage of the free, self-service migration tool. All SAP HANA Service users are entitled to use the migration service free of charge.

SAP HANA Cloud offers the same power and performance that you might already be familiar with in SAP HANA. However, SAP HANA Cloud is built natively for the cloud, which means greater connectivity and several new features. It’s also a database as a service, offering greater flexibility. With SAP HANA Cloud, you don’t have to worry about managing hardware, operating systems, backups, and other types of maintenance. All of this is taken care of by SAP.

SAP HANA Cloud can be used to extend SAP HANA on-premise to the cloud. This provides existing SAP HANA customers with more flexibility than their current on-premise solution, without having to start from scratch. With SAP HANA Cloud you can get the benefits of SAP HANA optimized fully for the cloud.

This guide gives you the details on how to extend SAP HANA on-premise to the cloud. We recommend starting here.

Yes. Federation/replication capabilities in SAP HANA Cloud are identical to the SAP HANA on-premise solutions.

Go to this page to see the full roadmap. You can also see the main highlights of each new SAP HANA Cloud release in our product updates section.

SAP HANA Cloud is available on Azure and AWS. Availability of AliCloud is planned in late 2020. To see all the different regional data centers for the hyperscalers, please go to this page.

Yes. There are plans to use machine learning in SAP HANA Cloud for automated operations in future.