What is AWS Data Exchange?
AWS Data Exchange is a marketplace service where organizations can find, subscribe to, and use third-party data directly in their AWS workflows. The service eliminates the traditional, manual process of data procurement: instead of receiving data via email, FTP, or individual APIs, it is delivered directly and automatically to the AWS environment.
On the marketplace, qualified data providers from various industries offer their products, including financial market data, weather and climate data, location and geospatial data, and health and demographic data. Subscribers receive automatic updates and can seamlessly integrate data into their analytics pipelines.
For data providers, AWS Data Exchange offers an additional distribution channel with integrated billing through the AWS Marketplace. Providing data requires no dedicated infrastructure.
Core Features
- Data Catalog: Searchable catalog with thousands of data products from various industries and categories
- Automatic Delivery: Subscribed data and updates are automatically delivered to your AWS account
- Multiple Delivery Formats: Delivery as S3 files, REST APIs, Redshift data shares, or Lake Formation permissions
- Integrated Billing: Billing through the existing AWS account without separate contracts
- Data Revisions: Complete version history of all data deliveries for audit and reproducibility
Typical Use Cases
Procure Third-Party Data: Organizations subscribe to financial data, weather data, or market research data through Data Exchange and receive automatic updates directly in S3 or Redshift without manual data transfer.
Publish Data Products: Data providers use Data Exchange as a distribution channel to market and monetize their datasets to AWS customers. Billing is handled automatically through AWS.
Enrich Analytics: Analysts combine internal data with external third-party data from Data Exchange to make more informed decisions, such as enriching customer data with demographic or market data.
Benefits
- Automated data delivery without manual effort
- Large selection of quality-verified data products
- Seamless integration with existing AWS analytics services
- Integrated billing and licensing through AWS
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory supports you with AWS Data Exchange: from identifying relevant data products and integrating them into existing analytics pipelines to publishing your own datasets on the marketplace.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AWS Data Exchange?
AWS Data Exchange is a managed service for finding, subscribing to, and using third-party data in the AWS Cloud. Data providers can publish and monetize their data products through the marketplace.
What data types are available?
Thousands of data products are available through AWS Data Exchange, including financial data, weather data, geospatial data, health data, IoT data, and more. Data is delivered as S3 files, API access, or Amazon Redshift tables.
How is data delivered?
Data can be delivered as files in Amazon S3, via REST APIs, as Amazon Redshift data shares, or as AWS Lake Formation permissions. Updates are automatically delivered to your AWS account.
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