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Service Level Agreement

MovableMoves with pressure, volume, timing or escalation. Expect a fight, expect to win something.

What it governs

Availability commitment for cloud services and the credits payable when it is missed.

Why SAP moves on it — or doesn't

The percentage is near-fixed; the remedy is where movement exists. Standard credits are small enough to be a rounding error.

The lever

Negotiate meaningful credits, a termination right for persistent breach, and clarity on what counts as excluded downtime - the exclusions usually matter more than the number.

In SAP's published documents

Standard cloud SLA: 99.7% system availability per month for the production version; the credit is 2% of the monthly subscription fee (or of the monthly cloud credits consumed) for each 1% below the SLA, capped at 100% of that month's fees; maintenance windows and notified major upgrade windows are excluded downtime. Private cloud edition and tailored option: 99.7% for production unless a higher level is agreed in the order form.

Source: Service Level Agreement for Cloud Services — enGLOBAL.v.8-2023 · also SLA for Private Cloud Edition Services and Tailored Option Services (enGLOBAL.v.2-2026). Checked 2026-09-17 against the SAP Trust Center; editions change — re-verify before relying on it.

Before you rely on this. A judgement, not legal advice. SAP's standard terms change — verify the current wording of this term in the standard documents published at the SAP Trust Center before using it in a live negotiation.
Also rated movable
  • Audit — SAP's right to verify licence compliance, the notice required, frequency, and who bears cost.
  • Conversion Credit — Credit granted for terminating existing licences, applied against a new purchase; the terminated licences' maintenance base is removed.
  • Digital Access — SAP's document-based licensing model for indirect scenarios, charging by documents created rather than by users.
  • Fee Increase — SAP's right to raise support or subscription fees at renewal, usually capped by reference to a published index.

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