AWS Data Exchange
Third-party data marketplace
A place to find, subscribe to, and use data from third-party providers (files on S3, APIs, Redshift tables, Lake Formation); updated data is delivered straight into your account.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?No
- Serverless
- In examsCLF
Think of it asLike a newspaper subscription: subscribe once, and new issues are delivered to your door.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
You need to buy or sell commercial datasets (finance, weather, healthcare…) on a subscription basis.
✗ Avoid it when
Only sharing data between accounts within your company → Lake Formation / Redshift data sharing.
Common uses
- Buy financial market data for analysis
- Providers selling data through AWS Marketplace
- Receive regularly updated data into S3
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: You pay the subscription price set by the data provider (many datasets are free), plus normal storage and data transfer costs.
