AWS Data Exchange is a service that makes it easy for AWS customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the AWS Cloud.
With AWS Data Exchange, providers publish data products and subscribers subscribe to those products.
AWS Data Exchange product
With AWS Data Exchange, providers publish data products and subscribers subscribe to those products.
A product has the following parts:
Product details – This information includes name, descriptions (both short and long), logo image, and support contact information. Providers complete the product details
Product offers – Offers define the terms that subscribers are agreeing to when they subscribe to a product. To make a product available on AWS Data Exchange, providers must define a public offer. This offer includes prices and durations, data subscription agreement, refund policy, and the option to create custom offers
Data sets – A product can contain one or more data sets. A data set in AWS Data Exchange is a dynamic set of data which is versioned through the use of revisions.
Subscribing to data products on AWS Data Exchange
Potential subscriber registers on AWS – You must sign up for AWS and create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user before you can use AWS Data Exchange.
Potential subscriber browses the catalog – Products are published on AWS Data Exchange and are also available on AWS Marketplace. You can find products and review the associated public or custom offers and product details. If the provider has issued a private offer to your account, the product is available on the My product offers page of the AWS Data Exchange console.
(Optional) Potential subscriber submits a request for a subscription – The provider can choose to enable subscription verification. If they do so, you must request a subscription to the product.
Subscriber subscribes to the product – If you subscribe to a paid product, you are billed on your AWS bill. You get access to the entitled data set.
Subscriber uses the product – You have access to the product data sets according to the terms of the data subscription agreement. You can export the associated assets to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or you can use jobs with a signed URL.
Request new data products – If you are not able to find a product in the catalog, you can use the Request data product page in the AWS Data Exchange console to inform AWS of your interest. AWS will use this information to work with the data provider and try to get that data added to the catalog.