title: 'Deployment Architectures' sidebar_label: 'Architectures' description: 'Explore Spice deployment architectures including sidecar, microservice, tiered, sharded, and cluster configurations.' sidebar_position: 1 pagination_prev: null pagination_next: null

Spice supports multiple deployment architectures:

• Sidecar Deployment - Deploy alongside applications
• Microservice Deployment (Single or Multiple Replicas) - Standalone service deployment
• Tiered Deployment - Edge, application, and cloud tiers
• Hybrid Deployment - Sidecar caching backed by a centralized cluster
• Cloud-Hosted in the Spice Cloud Platform - Managed cloud deployment
• Sharded Deployment - Horizontal data partitioning
• Cluster Deployment (Spice.ai Enterprise) - Distributed cluster architecture