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title: Sinks
meta:
   description: "Sinks are the destinations for your data. They are the places where you can store your data after it has been transformed."
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# Sinks

Tinybird Sinks allow you to export data from your Tinybird Workspace to external systems on a scheduled or on-demand basis. Sinks are built on top of [Pipes](../pipes) and provide a fully managed way to push data to various destinations.

## Available Sinks

Tinybird supports the following Sink destinations:

- [Kafka Sink](./sinks/kafka-sink)
- [S3 Sink](./sinks/s3-sink)
- [GCS Sink](./sinks/gcs-sink)

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Sinks are available on the Developer and Enterprise plans. See [Plans](/forward/pricing).
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## Key features

- Fully Managed: Sinks require no additional tooling or infrastructure management.  
- Scheduled or On-Demand: Run exports on a defined schedule using cron expressions or trigger them manually when needed.
- Query Parameters: Support for parameterized queries allows flexible data filtering and transformation.
- Observability: Monitor Sink operations and data transfer through Service Data Sources.

## Common use cases

Sinks enable various data integration scenarios:

- Regular data exports to clients or partner systems.
- Feeding data lakes and data warehouses.
- Real-time data synchronization with external systems.
- Event-driven architectures and data pipelines.