Cloud-Based Data Management Tool using Amazon DataZone

Introduction

Data management is obtaining, storing, organizing, and securing data to preserve its accuracy, reliability, and accessibility. Effective data management may boost an organization’s productivity and efficiency while providing insightful information and assisting in better decision-making. In light of this, AWS launched Amazon DataZone, a new data management service designed to let users manage data regardless of location by categorizing, discovering, sharing, and managing it.

What is Amazon DataZone?

Amazon DataZone is a cloud-based data management tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables companies to safely store, manage, and analyze their data in the cloud.

To ensure that everyone in the organization has access to data and analytics tools, users may more quickly and easily manage, discover, share, and control data held across AWS, on-premises, and outside sources with the help of Amazon DataZone.

The service boosts operational efficiency for business and data teams, enabling them to interact with data more rapidly, obtain new views, and make informed decisions using the data. You can spread data around the organization using Amazon DataZone.

How does it work?

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Amazon DataZone Features

Amazon DataZone has several features that can help businesses manage their data efficiently. Some of the key features of Amazon DataZone are:

1. Amazon DataZone Catalog:

• Your time searching for and using data can be cut down from weeks to days with the help of the Amazon DataZone business data catalog.
• Published datasets are included in the catalog, which you can access via the Amazon DataZone data portal to search for the required data. Search results are returned based on the data that has been cataloged.
• After that, you can pick the dataset that interests you and then look through the business glossary.
• Once you have confirmed the selected dataset, you can request access and start your research.

2. Amazon DataZone Projects:

• With the help of features for usage audits, you can use data projects to manage and keep a check on data assets, such as datasets, across projects.
• Access to AWS analytics can be facilitated by grouping people, data assets, and analytics tools by business use cases.
• Data projects provide a platform for project participants to interact, share data, and communicate. Projects are now more securely guarded, limiting access to data and analytics tools to people who have been explicitly added to the project.
• The ownership of data assets produced in compliance with the rules established by data administrators is managed by Projects through federated governance.

3. Amazon DataZone Portal:

• It is a web-based application that provides streamlined access to analytics with customized views for data assets outside the console.
• You don’t need to be familiar with the underlying AWS analytics services or the AWS Management Console to use analytics. It makes use of your identity provider’s current login credentials.

4. Amazon DataZone Domains:

• Domains are a scalable container for you, your team, and related Amazon DataZone entities, such as data assets and analytics tools like Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift query editors.
• A data asset can be published in the catalog with a specific domain that controls the data. After that, you may manage who has access to the resources and linked AWS accounts that can access that domain.

Conclusion

Finding the ideal balance between control and access to data is essential, but it differs for every organization, according to AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. If you have too much control, your data will get isolated. People struggle to access the information they require when needed, which kills creativity and innovation while fostering shadow IT systems that leave your data out-of-date, incomplete, and probably unsafe.

However, giving too many people access to your data could have an equally negative effect on your business. It may wind up in locations you don’t want it to, endangering your customers and staff’s safety and security.

People within the organization need to feel trusted and confident. We can do that by establishing the proper governance that balances control and access—which is now possible thanks to Amazon DataZone!

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