SAP HANA in Cloud

Before we start, offcourse we need to know what term is: "Cloud".

Cloud is delivery of hosted services over the internet.
Cloud computing enables us to consume resource as a utility, just like electricity. We no need to built generator to create electricity, we just use it and pay it monthly.

SAP has two main SAP HANA based cloud offerings: SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.

SAP HANA Cloud Platform

SAP HANA Cloud Platform enables customers and developers to build, extend, and run applications on SAP HANA in the cloud, which in turn allows them to take advantage of SAP HANA's capabilities.

A benefit of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (like any of PaaS - Platform as a Services) is that we pay for what size application we build. We don't care with all hardware and SAP HANA licenses.

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private solutions that allows customers access to SAP HANA applications and platforms on a subscriptions basis without having to share infrastructure with others organizations.