HANA is available as an appliance (hardware with software preloaded) from a number of vendors such as IBM, Dell and HP. HANA is also available as a cloud appliance (called HANA One) from a number of cloud service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft Azure. A free developer's edition is available from several cloud providers. HANA is not available as software alone.
An SAP account is required to deploy SAP HANA and machines. To deploy a HANA instance, you must log into your SAP account and initiate the deployment from there. When all requirements are met at the SAP site, virtual machine(s) will be created by SAP on the selected cloud service provider. This is in contrast to the more conventional approach where virtual machines are created directly on the cloud service provider's web site.
HANA requires substantial hardware resources. For example, on Amazon, the recommended instance size is 8xlarge, which has 32 CPUs, 60GB memory and 640GB disk storage.[21]
HANA can be deployed on a single machine or in a high-availability cluster. A single machine can run multiple instances of HANA