Management and Governance
RecognitionAWS Data Exchange
Governed discovery and subscription surface for third-party datasets.
Key points
- Data Exchange provides governed discovery and subscription to third-party datasets.
- Entitlements and dataset revisions must enter the same catalog, access, quality, and lifecycle controls as internal data.
Best-known use cases
- Discover and subscribe to third-party datasets for analytics.
- Deliver entitled dataset revisions into governed data workflows.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Data Exchange manages external dataset subscriptions; direct file transfer services move data without that marketplace entitlement model.
Key takeaway
Choose Data Exchange when the pipeline consumes a subscribed third-party dataset through a governed delivery path.
Relevant exam tasks
- D4.5 — Task 4.5: Understand data privacy and governance
- 4.5.1 — Grant permissions for data sharing (for example, data sharing for Amazon Redshift).
- 4.5.7 — Describe governance data framework and data sharing patterns.