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Data Governance with AWS
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Data Governance with AWS

by Kevin Lewis, Jason Berkowitz, Ina Felsheim, Joseph D. Stec
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
52 pages
1h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 5. How AWS Enables Governance

As organizations work to drive business initiatives with data and insights, they learn to balance data access and control by curating, understanding, and protecting their data. They also learn how critical data governance is to their business agility. In this final chapter, we will explore some of the technologies that support and facilitate the three pillars of data governance: curating, understanding, and protecting your data.

In this chapter, we will focus on a subset of AWS services, centering around Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a data management service that helps you catalog, discover, share, analyze, and govern your data. It is a unified solution, which means you won’t have to assemble individual services to implement data governance.

Amazon DataZone allows customers to define data ownership based on what works for them. This enables data ownership to be centralized to one single team or decentralized to many global teams. When ownership is distributed, each department or the analytics team maintain their business glossaries so that data consumers know that they are using the right data.

Amazon DataZone works with other Amazon applications, streamlining the ability to curate, understand, and protect your data. For example, to curate data, Amazon DataZone is built to enable data users to launch analytical services—such as Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon SageMaker—so they can analyze data and determine ...

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