Download from AWS S3 to Internet / Data Transfer Out to Internet

Question

SAP is well known for charging for data that moves out of their SAP environment to elsewhere.

Whilst I can understand that download, moving a file from an S3 bucket to my local computer is charged for, my question is then as follows:

• if I run a Spark App to read S3 data, and then use a driver to write to SAP Hana from EC2 from that Spark App, does AWS count and know that this is S3 data being transferred outside the AWS domain to another Cloud?
  • It's a bit different to the foto download from S3 bucket example.

Answer 1

Short answer is that the transfer from S3 to EC2 in the same region is free, but the transfer from EC2 out of AWS has a scaling data transfer fee.

Check out this visual to answer your data transfer pricing questions. https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws#aws-data-transfer-costs