There was an announcement that an ABAP development environment and run-time environment will be available on SAP Cloud platform.
Is ABAP well suited for SAP Cloud platform? It is the best option for SAP on Premise solutions.
Regards,
Umar Abdullah
There is no trial account yet. They shown demo on last teched. It has odata/rest service and data manipulation functionality yet. It will have more function before public or not.
There is no technical differences for any cloud provider with SCP yet. You can use other language (java, python, etc) for extending SAP on-promise. ABAP not mandatory for SCP now and it hasn't got any advantage for now. I think ABAP will never mandatory language for extending SAP S/4Hana.