SAP S/4HANA Systems in Hyperscaler Clouds: Deploying SAP S/4HANA in AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

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A. Bögelsack et al.SAP S/4HANA Systems in Hyperscaler Cloudshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8158-1_1

1. Introduction to Public Cloud and Hyperscalers

André Bögelsack¹  , Utpal Chakraborty², Dhiraj Kumar², Johannes Rank³, Jessica Tischbierek⁴ and Elena Wolz⁵

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Bern, Switzerland

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Kolkata, India

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Irschenberg, Germany

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München, Germany

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Ismaning, Germany

 

Before entering the world of SAP S/4HANA systems on the public cloud, this chapter first describes the basic features of cloud computing and introduces the most important terms. This makes it easier to understand the rest of the book.

Important Features of Public Cloud

Cloud computing emerged in the mid-2000s ...