New service makes it easy for AWS customers to
find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud
More than 1,000 products containing data now
available in AWS Marketplace from more than 80 qualified data
providers, including category-leading brands such as Reuters,
Change Healthcare, Dun & Bradstreet, TransUnion, Foursquare,
Pitney Bowes, and Virtusa
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced AWS Data Exchange, a new service that makes it
easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to,
and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers
include category-leading brands such as Reuters, who curate data
from over 2.2 million unique news stories per year in multiple
languages; Change Healthcare, who process and anonymize more than
14 billion healthcare transactions and $1 trillion in claims
annually; Dun & Bradstreet, who maintain a database of more
than 330 million global business records; and Foursquare, whose
location data is derived from 220 million unique consumers and
includes more than 60 million global commercial venues. For
qualified data providers, AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to reach
the millions of AWS customers migrating to the cloud by removing
the need to build and maintain infrastructure for data storage,
delivery, billing, and entitling.
Enterprises, scientific researchers, and academic institutions
have been using third-party data for decades to conduct research,
power applications and analytics, train machine-learning models,
and make data-driven decisions. But, as these customers subscribe
to more third-party data, they often have to wait weeks to receive
shipped physical media, manage sensitive credentials for multiple
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) hosts and periodically check for
updates, or code to several disparate application programming
interfaces (APIs). These methods are inconsistent with the modern
architectures customers are developing in the cloud. This forces
customers to build and maintain automation to ensure that they have
the most up-to-date third-party data in the data lakes,
applications, analytics, and machine-learning models that they’re
migrating to AWS. Finally, customers have to manage disparate
billing relationships and licensing agreements with every data
provider they use. For data providers, it’s challenging to reach
every customer that might be interested in their data without large
investments in sales and marketing, as well as technology to store,
deliver, bill for, and entitle data for their customers. These
barriers often prevent customers who have valuable data from
becoming a data provider.
Starting today, AWS customers can subscribe to a diverse
selection of third-party data in AWS Marketplace. For example,
property insurers can subscribe to historical weather pattern data
to calibrate insurance coverage requirements in different
geographies; academic researchers can conduct studies on climate
change by subscribing to data on carbon dioxide emissions; and
healthcare professionals can subscribe to aggregated data from
historical clinical trials to accelerate their research activities.
Prior to subscribing to a data product, customers can review the
price and terms of use that providers make publicly available. Once
subscribed, customers can use the AWS Data Exchange API or console
to ingest data they subscribe to directly into Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) to use across the broadest and deepest
portfolio of cloud services in AWS. Each time a provider publishes
a new revision of their data, AWS Data Exchange notifies all
subscribers via an Amazon CloudWatch Event, allowing them to
automatically consume new revisions in their data lakes,
applications, analytics, and machine-learning models running on
AWS. Data subscription costs are consolidated in customers’
existing AWS invoice. Additionally, customers can ask their data
providers to deliver their existing subscriptions to them using AWS
Data Exchange at no cost. This enables customers to use AWS Data
Exchange to consume all their third-party data in the AWS cloud
using a single API.
“Customers have asked us for an easier way to find, subscribe
to, and integrate diverse data sets into the applications,
analytics, and machine-learning models they’re running on AWS.
Unfortunately, the way customers exchange data hasn’t evolved much
in the last 20 years,” said Stephen Orban, General Manager of AWS
Data Exchange. “AWS Data Exchange gives our customers the ability
to quickly integrate third-party data in the workloads they’re
migrating to the cloud, while giving qualified data providers a
modern and secure way to package, deliver, and reach the millions
of AWS customers worldwide.”
AWS Data Exchange also makes it easy for qualified data
providers to securely package, license, and deliver data products
to millions of AWS customers worldwide. AWS knows that customers
care deeply about privacy and data security. AWS Data Exchange
prohibits sharing sensitive personal data (e.g. personal health
information) as well as any personal data that is not already
lawfully and publicly available. Qualified data providers can
publish free or paid products under the terms of use they specify,
and can issue private offers with custom terms for specific AWS
customers. They can also choose to approve each subscription,
allowing them to review intended uses cases or manage compliance
needs. AWS Data Exchange provides qualified data providers with
daily, weekly, and monthly reports detailing subscription activity,
and handles associated billing, payment collection, and secure
delivery of data to subscribers.
Reuters curates and distributes over 2.2 million unique news
stories per year in multiple languages. “Reuters is constantly
seeking new ways to broaden the reach of our independent, trusted
and unbiased news content and data. We are excited to be among the
first providers of such content on AWS Data Exchange, where our
multi-language news data will be made available to a diverse range
of AWS customers around the globe,” said Alphonse Hardel, Global
Head of Business Development and Strategy, Reuters. “With the
increasing demand across industries to use news content to train
and power their mission critical AI and analytics applications on
the cloud, the depth and accuracy of Reuters coverage means AWS
customers are now able to seamlessly access the highest quality of
data from AWS Data Exchange,” added Hardel.
Dun & Bradstreet’s database of more than 330 million global
business records helps retail, manufacturing, financial services,
and technology customers improve their credit, risk, marketing, and
sales operations. “Our customers have been using Dun &
Bradstreet’s commercial data solutions to deliver insights that
empower their ability to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate
risk, and transform their businesses. We are excited to now offer
this data to our existing and prospective joint AWS customers in a
cloud native way on AWS Data Exchange,” said Ken Lordy, Director of
Products at Dun & Bradstreet. “Using AWS Data Exchange to
distribute our content allows our customers another integrated
option to access our attributes to inform decisioning across
business intelligence, product strategy, marketing, and more.”
Databricks helps organizations make their data ready for
analytics and enable data-driven decisions across their
organization. “By integrating the AWS Data Exchange API into
Databricks, our customers can seamlessly combine third-party data
with their existing data lakes to perform advanced data science and
analytics at scale on AWS,” said Pankaj Dugar, VP, Technology and
Data Provider Partnerships.
Change Healthcare is a mission-critical partner to the
healthcare industry, processing 14 billion healthcare transactions
and $1 trillion in claims annually. “As a pioneer in healthcare, we
are excited to enable new opportunities for customers migrating to
AWS to leverage AWS Data Exchange to find, subscribe to, and use
responsibly aggregated and de-identified healthcare claims and
transaction data to improve our collective well-being,” said Tim
Suther, SVP of Data Solutions for Change Healthcare. “AWS Data
Exchange is an effective and secure way to share our data with
existing subscribers, and accelerates our ability to deliver
to customers working to solve healthcare’s most challenging issues.
We’re also excited by the opportunity to become a subscriber and
gain access to some of the other unique offerings in the AWS Data
Exchange catalog to help us enrich our own data and deliver more
value to our customers.”
Deloitte’s ConvergeHEALTH Miner platform empowers life sciences
and healthcare organizations to drive transformation toward
value-based, personalized medicine by applying integrated
cloud-based analytics, knowledge management, and collaboration
tools. “By integrating the AWS Data Exchange API into
ConvergeHEALTH Miner, we’re giving our customers a quick and easy
way to find, subscribe to, and use data from third parties
alongside the data they’re already generating and analyzing in the
cloud,” said Brett Davis, Principal at Deloitte Consulting and
General Manager of ConvergeHEALTH. “AWS Data Exchange is unlocking
a number of data sources that have traditionally been locked in
siloes spanning multiple organizations, and gives healthcare
stakeholders a scalable and secure service to create new
collaborative business models to reimagine how they approach
research, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, population health,
and reimbursement.”
Foursquare is the most trusted, independent location data
platform for understanding how people move through the real world.
“Being a provider for AWS Data Exchange enables companies to
directly access Foursquare’s audiences and places datasets—which is
derived from our understanding of 220 million unique consumers, 100
million devices, and 60 million global commercial venues—in order
to strengthen customer intelligence, build context-rich
applications, and assess category & chain trends,” says Josh
Cohen, SVP Product at Foursquare. “AWS Data Exchange provides us
with secure access to customers at incomparable scale, while also
serving as an easy data ingestion and activation vehicle for data
usage.”
TruFactor’s anonymization platform and proprietary AI ingests,
filters, and transforms more than 85 billion high-quality raw
signals daily from wireless carriers, OEMs, and mobile apps into a
unified, accurate view of the consumer across physical and digital
dimensions. “Our patented TruFactor platform produces anonymized
intelligence that enterprises can license with the confidence that
they are meeting the highest standards of security, privacy, and
compliance,” said Piyush Shah, CEO of TruFactor. “We are pleased to
offer this intelligence for the first time on AWS Data Exchange,
which enables our customers around the globe to easily access and
power analytics like investment research, optimization of retail
sites, and transportation demand models.”
Pitney Bowes is an address-centric data provider and global
technology company focused on responsibly curating data to inform
and solve customer problems. “We’re excited to make our World
Points of Interest, Demographics, and World Streets data available
on AWS Data Exchange so that millions of AWS customers can drive
business outcomes that matter,” says Bob Guidotti, EVP and
President of Pitney Bowes Software & Data. “AWS has always been
known for their world-class suite of analytics, and we’re proud to
be a part of that.”
To get started with AWS Data Exchange visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange.
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