AWS services that help enable a data mesh approach

Most analytics vendors have been adding functionality to their solutions to support a data mesh approach over the past few years. And while there is currently no single solution that enables a data mesh across a complex selection of analytical tools and hybrid environments, many companies have made good progress in supporting the data mesh approach, at least within their own “ecosystem” of tools.

AWS has supported sharing both S3-and Redshift-based datasets across AWS accounts for a while. And while easy sharing of data across different AWS accounts (and different teams within an organization generally have their own AWS accounts) is a key component of a data mesh architecture, it is only a piece of building a data mesh. Another key component is the ability to centrally catalog data and add rich business metadata for each dataset, which can be done with the Amazon DataZone service. In this section, we explore the...