AWS has announced the launch of a new service called AWS Data Exchange, which enables customers of Amazon's cloud service to securely search, subscribe, and use third-party data in the cloud.
More than 1,000 products containing data are now available on the AWS Marketplace from more than 80 qualified data providers. In its press release announcing the new service, AWS noted that some of these qualified data providers were allowing AWS customers to access third-party data from Reuters, Change Healthcare, Dun & Bradstreet, TransUnion, Foursquare, Pitney Bowes, etc.
AWS Data Exchange will enable qualified data providers to easily reach millions of AWS customers migrating to the cloud by eliminating the need to create and maintain a data storage, delivery, billing, and authorization infrastructure.
The new service will save customers time acquiring data from third parties and simplify tasks because they no longer have to wait for physical media to be delivered or handle sensitive identity information from multiple hosts. FTP.
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AWS customers will now be able to subscribe to a diverse selection of third-party data on the AWS Marketplace.
Among the many use cases for AWS Data Exchange, the company has provided some examples, among which property insurers can subscribe to historical weather data to calibrate the company's coverage requirements. Secure, university researchers working on climate change studies who can now subscribe to healthcare professionals who can subscribe to aggregated data from historical clinical trials to accelerate their research.
Before subscribing to a data product, customers will be able to check the price and terms of use made available to the public by the providers. Once subscribed, they can use the AWS Data Sharing Console or API to acquire the data they subscribe to directly from Amazon S3.
Whenever a data provider publishes a new revision of their data, AWS Data Exchange will inform all subscribers through an Amazon CloudWatch event, which will allow customers to automatically use new revisions in their models. lakes of data, applications, analytics, and machine learning running on AWS. .
Stephen Orban, General Manager, AWS Data Exchange, explained why AWS had decided to launch its new service and stated:
"Customers have asked us for an easier way to find, subscribe, and integrate diverse data sets into the application, analytics, and machine learning models they use on AWS. Unfortunately, the way customers exchange data hasn't changed much in the past. the past 20 years. AWS Data Exchange offers our customers the ability to rapidly integrate third-party data into workloads migrating to the cloud, while providing qualified data providers with a modern and secure way to package, deliver and reach the millions of AWS customers around the world. "