Azure
Data Share a new feature to share data between organizations. The regions
are slightly limited to 3 as of now but will grow in the future. Under the hood
it’s a PaaS based share service which expose selected data from Azure storage
to the selected parties and has a couple of features thrown in
-Versioning
-Tracking and auditing capabilities like who, when accessed the
data.
-Subscribe to the data share.
-Policies around data usage
-Uses the same security primitives as Azure.
Quick Facts: Data can be shared in/out to any other organization which
are on Azure.
The
sharing and receiving possibility in/out are limited to
Data
shared via invitation works best with Microsoft suite of authentication schemes
or more specifically Azure, so if there is sharing information to other forms
authentication that will not be possible.
Typical use cases
- Data
Sharing between organizations.
- Planning
to find an easier solution then FTP , drop box other forms for sharing.
Good
to see in future allow data share of Azure database which add complexity to
multifold and will be competing with other existing Azure offering (SQL Azure Sync,
ADF etc.…)
