Amazon DataZone — Governed Analytics

Prashant Mhatre
2 min readJan 22, 2023

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Are you struggling to get a comprehensive view of all your business data regardless of where it is stored? Amazon DataZone (Preview) is here to help. This new data management service allows us to increase productivity by inviting team members to collaborate and access data project assets and analytics tools, and analyze data with a personalized view of our projects without signing in to the AWS Management Console.

Additionally, we can access our data in accordance with our organization’s security and compliance regulations.

Governed Analytics — Amazon DataZone — Unlock data across organizational boundaries with built-in governance (Source: AWS)

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Governed Analytics — Amazon DataZone Services

Features of Amazon DataZone

Here are some of the features that Amazon DataZone has to offer:

The Amazon DataZone catalog allows you to search for published data, request access, and start working with your data in days instead of weeks.

The Amazon DataZone projects feature enables you to collaborate with teams through data assets and manage and monitor data assets across projects.

The Amazon DataZone portal offers access to analytics with a personalized view for data assets through a web-based application or API.

One of the key benefits of Amazon DataZone is the ability to discover and share data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. This makes data accessible to everyone in the organization, streamlining the process of finding and utilizing data.

Amazon DataZone — Use Cases

Amazon DataZone has several use cases that can benefit your organization, such as:

Finding data in the business data catalog, regardless of where it is stored, using business terms to search, share, and access cataloged data.

Streamlining workflow processes by increasing efficiency through collaboration and self-service access to data and analytics tools.

Simplifying analytics access by providing a personalized view to discover, prepare, transform, analyze, and visualize data using a web-based application.

Administrating access from one place by managing and governing data access in accordance with your organization’s security regulations.

In short, Amazon DataZone is a powerful tool that can help you to discover, catalog, share, and govern data across your organization, making it accessible to everyone, and streamlining the process of finding and utilizing data to derive insights.

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