Amazon DataZone

• Data management service
  • Facilitates cataloging, discovering, sharing, and governing data
• Supports
  • AWS
  • On-Premises data
  • Third-party data
• Users
  • Engineers
  • Data scientists
  • Product managers
  • Analysts, business users
• Easy and secure access to data with governance and transparency
• Becoming subsumed into SageMaker Unified Studio
• Producers: S3, redshift, glue
• consumers: Athena, SageMarker, QuickSight

Use Case

• Catalog and discover data
  • Automated metadata management
• Govern data access
  • Fine-grained access controls
  • Governance workflows
• Collaborate across teams
  • Projects, shared analytics tools
• Automate workflows
  • Share data between producers and consumers

Key Component

• Domains
  • Organizational entities to group users, data, and projects
• Data portal
  • Web application, outside of AWS console
  • Catalog, discover, govern, share, analyze data
  • IAM authentication
• Business Data Catalog
  • Define taxonomy / glossary
• Data projects
  • Groups people, data sets, analytics tools
• Data environments
  • Provides infrastructure within projects (storage, analytics tools)
• Governance and access control
  • Built-in workflows for requesting data access and approving it
  • Manages permissions via Lake Formation, Redshift