# Replicating data using SAP services
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 **SAP BDC / Datasphere** 

 [SAP Datasphere](https://www.sap.com/products/data-cloud/datasphere.html) offers various connection types such as SAP ABAP Connections, SAP ECC Connections, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Connections supporting RFC and ODP protocols. Refer to [SAP BDC / Datasphere documentation](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATASPHERE/be5967d099974c69b77f4549425ca4c0/eb85e157ab654152bd68a8714036e463.html) to choose most appropriate connectivity to replicate SAP data. Using [premium outbound integration for [Amazon Simple Storage Connection (Amazon S3)](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATASPHERE/be5967d099974c69b77f4549425ca4c0/a7b660a0a4ef4a4fbee57b44f5b2147d.html), configure SAP Datasphere replication flow to ingest data to Amazon S3.

 **SAP Data Services** 

 [SAP Data Services](https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/data-services.html) offer various connections to replicate data from SAP ECC data. Refer to [SAP Data Services documentation](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATA_SERVICES) to choose most appropriate connectivity. SAP Data Services offers [Amazon Redshift Datastore](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATA_SERVICES/af6d8e979d0f40c49175007e486257f0/731d7026ae3b4fef9ebadfbe23ffff12.html) and [Amazon S3 datastore](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATA_SERVICES/af6d8e979d0f40c49175007e486257f0/e1ed075446344b5ca098e2382cfca78d.html) to ingest data to AWS. It also offers options for [Amazon S3 file location protocol](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATA_SERVICES/af6d8e979d0f40c49175007e486257f0/a611106693ea422eb0b04705298516b7.html) such as encryption type, compression type, batch-size, number of threads, Amazon S3 storage class, etc.