Amazon DataZone
Data catalog and sharing
Enterprise-catalog-style data management: catalog data, add business meaning, and let users find and request access to data through an approval workflow. It is the governance foundation inside SageMaker Unified Studio.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?A little
- Serverless
Think of it asLike an internal marketplace: each department publishes its data, other departments request to use it and get approved.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Organizations with many teams that need to find, share, and govern data across accounts.
✗ Avoid it when
You only need table permissions within one data lake → Lake Formation.
Common uses
- Company-wide data catalog
- Data access request–approval workflow
- Attach a business glossary to tables
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged by number of users and by metadata/requests beyond the free allowance.
