Each type of service can be categorized under a domain. Widely used domains are: Compute, Storage, Database, Migration, Network and Content Delivery, Security & Identity Compliance, etc.

From the Datavard perspective, Storage and Database domains are the relevant ones.

Datavard supports storage service S3 and database service Redshift. 

S3 is frequently used as a landing zone for integration scenarios with Datavard Glue, or as cost-efficient storage for Datavard Outboard DataTiering. 

Redshift is used in scenarios when Glue transfers the data into a directly consumable form or as a fast Outboard DataTiering storage suitable for frequently accessed data. 

Please refer to the chapter S3/Redshift Storage Setup for more information on how to set up these storages.

Costs

On top of Datavard Glue/Outboard licenses, you need to reckon with the costs associated with resources deployed on AWS when storing data in S3 or Redshift.

These costs will mostly depend on:

1. Whether it's "cold" S3 storage, or "hot" Redshift storage
2. GBs of data stored
3. Frequency and amount of data retrieval

If you only use S3, check S3 pricing to estimate costs. The price depends on the amount of data stored, the number of requests, and the amount of data retrieved from S3.

For small deployment, where 500GBs (after compression) of data is stored, and the same amount of data is queried back to SAP in a month, the total costs are ~20USD/month.

For deployments that require a Redshift database, please check Redshift costs. In addition to Redshift compute costs, you will also be charged for S3, which is used as intermediate storage when writing to Redshift. 

For small deployment, with 500GB (before compression) of data stored in Redshift, it costs around 200USD/month. This can be further reduced by purchasing reserved compute instances.