Hello SAP HANA Cloud Experts,
the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) does currently only support HANA as the persistence for productive deployments. According to the SAP CP Estimator the currently most affordable HANA offering "SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA service" with 32 GB on AWS for EUR 712,48 is marked with "The HANA Standard plan on AWS is scheduled to be retired as of May 21st, 2020.". So the next option is the new SAP HANA Cloud offering. That is offered for 1125 Capacity Units (= Euro) on AWS or 1170 on Azure.
When I work with CAP in the SAP Cloud Platform Trial it is quite easy to get everything going. I simply build my MTA and deploy it with cf deploy using the service hanatrial from the marketplace. But how does this work in SAP CP Production? How do I connect the SAP HANA Cloud instance to the Cloud Foundry Sub-Account or Space in a way that it can be used from my MTA deployment? I've checked the SAP HANA Cloud documentation and found only Binding Applications to an SAP HANA Cloud Instance which describes a completely manual way to create a HDI Container and bind it to the Application. I want the full automation as I'm used to it when deploying the MTA to SAP HANA on Premise or in SAP CP Cloud Foundry Trial.
Looking forward for your input.
Best regards
Gregor