SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances Alternatives (September 2025)

SAP HANA Cloud is a single database as a service (DBaaS) foundation for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data.

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Learn about how Azure confidential computing protects data in use and learn ways to build confidential workloads in the cloud.

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Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are 100% dedicated, secure, bare metal servers. Servers are available with Intel, Z, or LinuxONE architectures in a shared or VPC environment.

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At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

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This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

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Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

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Azure Blob storage provides scalable, cost-efficient object storage in the cloud. Store and access unstructured data for your most demanding workloads.

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Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

This article provides an introduction to Spark in HDInsight and the different scenarios in which you can use Spark cluster in HDInsight.

Learn how to use Azure StorSimple, an integrated storage solution that manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and Azure cloud storage.

Azure Virtual Desktop combines the scale, security, and cost benefits of Azure and Microsoft 365 for a secure remote desktop from virtually anywhere.

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Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing and big data analytics services.

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Get started today with our public cloud ERP software solution, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This offering is hosted by SAP and runs on the industry standard so you can quickly get up and running with cloud ERP.

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Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

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Learn how to get started with the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) to create and manage Azure resources — explore guides, tutorials, samples, articles, and more.

Try Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build reliable and intelligent applications for your organization. Explore open-source PostgreSQL database.

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Connect business offices, retail locations, and sites securely with Virtual WAN, a unified wide-area network portal powered by Azure and the Microsoft global network.

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

Learn about changes, improvements, and features in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2.

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

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Manage and connect your core processes with SAP Business ByDesign, scalable cloud ERP for midmarket companies and subsidiaries.

Azure OpenAI Service offers industry-leading coding and language AI models that you can fine-tune to your specific needs for a variety of use cases.

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

Build, train, deploy and scale AI models and intelligent applications on a resilient and sustainable cloud ecosystem.

Build machine learning models in a simplified way with machine learning platforms from Azure. Machine learning as a service increases accessibility and efficiency.

Protect, monitor, and report on your Azure Virtual Network resources using Azure Firewall, a cloud-native network security and analytics solution.

Download and install the Azure SDKs and Azure PowerShell and command-line tools for management and deployment.

Azure Table storage provides a NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets. Get started today.

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

Learn about Azure Notification Hubs. Send push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle from any backend. Easier mobile app development.

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

Learn how to use Azure Cache for Redis, a secure data cache and messaging broker that gives applications fast access to data. Tutorials, API references, and more.

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Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

Build cloud environments with significant performance improvements over other public clouds and on-premises data centers. Oracle’s Bare Metal Servers support applications requiring high core counts, large amounts of memory, and high memory bandwidth.

Get more value from your enterprise data assets with Azure Data Catalog. Spend less time looking for data and more time getting value from it. Get started today.

Lower the cost of running UNIX applications and modernize UNIX infrastructure with the high performance, security, and uptime of Oracle SPARC Servers.

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

Explore AI Speech from Microsoft Azure that include speech recognition, text to speech, speech translation, voice-enabled app features, and more.

Use Azure FXT Edge Filer as a caching layer for read-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) tasks.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are configurable single- or multi-tenant virtual machines, available with Intel, IBM zSystems, and IBM LinuxONE architectures.

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

Share code, track work, and ship software using integrated developer tools, hosted on-premises with Azure DevOps Server

StarWind SAN & NAS is a ready-to-go Linux-based VM deployed onto an industry-grade hypervisor, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Open cloud platform with data management, analytics, AI, IoT, blockchain technologies and application development services that helps companies connect processes, experiences and data.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

Get 10 free parallel jobs for cloud-based CI/CD pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Automate builds and easily deploy to any cloud with Azure Pipelines.

Azure API Apps give you the tools to develop, host, secure, and share REST APIs in your organization or with the world.

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Learn about the Azure Traffic Manager DNS load balancer. Improve app performance with automatic DNS traffic management services across datacenters.

See how DesktopReady can cover your business or an individual. Making scaling easy, not to mention the unmatched security all on the Azure platform. Buy now.

A powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs).

Gain greater control over your small business with the SAP Business One application. Streamline processes by using ERP software designed to grow with you.

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

EMQX: The most scalable MQTT Broker for IoT. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in 1 cluster at 1ms latency. Move and process millions of MQTT messages per second.

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Simplify how you manage your app resources with Azure Resource Manager. Deploy resources together, categorize them for easy billing, and enable access control.

Single Mailbox Recovery (SMBR) software allows you to restore and recover mails or mailbox instead of the complete Exchange Database.