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Category: Amazon DataZone

Enhance data security with fine-grained access controls in Amazon DataZone

Fine-grained access control is a crucial aspect of data security for modern data lakes and data warehouses. As organizations handle vast amounts of data across multiple data sources, the need to manage sensitive information has become increasingly important. Making sure the right people have access to the right data, without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized […]

Amazon DataZone enhances data discovery with advanced search filtering

Amazon DataZone, a fully managed data management service, helps organizations catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers. We are excited to announce the introduction of advanced search filtering capabilities in the Amazon DataZone business data catalog. With the improved rendering of glossary terms, you can now navigate large sets of […]

Amazon DataZone announces custom blueprints for AWS services

Last week, we announced the general availability of custom AWS service blueprints, a new feature in Amazon DataZone allowing you to customize your Amazon DataZone project environments to use existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and AWS services to embed the service into your existing processes. In this post, we share how this […]

Governing data in relational databases using Amazon DataZone

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across Amazon Web Services (AWS), on premises, and on third-party […]

Amazon DataZone announces integration with AWS Lake Formation hybrid access mode for the AWS Glue Data Catalog

Last week, we announced the general availability of the integration between Amazon DataZone and AWS Lake Formation hybrid access mode. In this post, we share how this new feature helps you simplify the way you use Amazon DataZone to enable secure and governed sharing of your data in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. We also […]

Amazon DataZone now integrates with AWS Glue Data Quality and external data quality solutions

Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon DataZone is now able to present data quality information for data assets. This information empowers end-users to make informed decisions as to whether or not to use specific assets. In this post, we discuss the latest features of Amazon DataZone for data quality, the integration between Amazon DataZone and AWS Glue Data Quality and how you can import data quality scores produced by external systems into Amazon DataZone via API.

AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone for enhanced business data cataloging and discovery is now generally available

In March 2024, we announced the general availability of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) generated data descriptions in Amazon DataZone. In this post, we share what we heard from our customers that led us to add the AI-generated data descriptions and discuss specific customer use cases addressed by this capability. We also detail how the […]

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Unstructured data management and governance using AWS AI/ML and analytics services

In this post, we discuss how AWS can help you successfully address the challenges of extracting insights from unstructured data. We discuss various design patterns and architectures for extracting and cataloging valuable insights from unstructured data using AWS. Additionally, we show how to use AWS AI/ML services for analyzing unstructured data.

Unlock data across organizational boundaries using Amazon DataZone – now generally available 

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. With Amazon DataZone, data users like data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts can share and access […]

Five actionable steps to GDPR compliance (Right to be forgotten) with Amazon Redshift

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, gives individuals the right to request the deletion of their personally identifiable information (PII) data held by organizations. This means that individuals can ask companies to erase their personal data from their systems and any third parties with […]