SAP ABAP Environment (Steampunk) Now Available on Alibaba Cloud in Shanghai

01 What happened

SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environment (Steampunk) is now available on Alibaba Cloud in the China (Shanghai) region as of October 15, 2026. The service plans standard, saas_oem, and free are supported; build-runtime is not supported. Customers must use the dedicated SAP BTP Cockpit for China and may need to manually enable Alibaba Cloud as a supported provider in global account settings.

02 Key details

• SAP ABAP environment (Steampunk) is now available on Alibaba Cloud in the China (Shanghai) region as of October 15, 2026.
• Supported service plans: standard, saas_oem, and free; build-runtime is not supported in this region.
• To use Steampunk on Alibaba Cloud, customers must access the dedicated SAP BTP Cockpit for China and possibly enable Alibaba Cloud as a provider in global account settings.
• This region complements existing regions on SAP Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

03 Why it matters

This expansion gives customers and partners in China a local deployment option for Steampunk on Alibaba Cloud, reducing latency and meeting data residency requirements. However, the missing build-runtime plan and the need for a separate cockpit add operational considerations.

04 Who it matters to

SAP customers, SAP partners and SAP developers.