Open Data on AWS

Share any volume of data with as many people as you want

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When data is shared on AWS, anyone can analyze it and build services on top of it using a broad range of compute and data analytics products, including Amazon EC2, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EMR. Sharing data in the cloud lets data users spend more time on data analysis rather than data acquisition.

AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find datasets made publicly available through AWS services. Browse available data and learn how to register your own datasets.

AWS Public Datasets: Unlocking the Potential of Open Data in the Cloud

Putting data to work on AWS

Examples of how data shared on AWS is accelerating research and creation of new applications.

Allen Institute for Brain Science Shares Research Data on AWS

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Element 84 Uses AWS to Process Large Datasets at Scale

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SpaceNet Accelerates Geospatial Machine Learning using AWS

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    Using open data to study the sounds of the ocean and create art

    Can you see sounds? Using open data, you can. To celebrate this year’s World Oceans Day, an artist and sustainability application architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), created an artwork titled Can You See the Sound of the Ocean. To create the art, she drew inspiration from the Pacific Ocean Sound Recordings from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI). Learn more about the dataset and the art work.
    June 2022
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    Managing the world’s natural resources with earth observation

    With increasing pressure from climate change, loss of biodiversity, and demand for natural resources from already stressed ecosystems, it has become essential to understand and address environmental changes by making sustainable land use decisions with the latest and most accurate data. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), AWS invited Joe Sexton, chief scientist and co-founder of terraPulse, to share how AWS technologies and open data are supporting terraPulse’s efforts to provide accurate and up-to-date information on the world’s changing ecosystems.
    June 2022
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    How Natural Resources Canada migrated petabytes of geospatial data to the cloud

    Since 1971, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has accumulated an Earth observation (EO) data archive in excess of two petabytes (PB). NRCan wanted to modernize its geospatial offerings at a faster pace, so they turned to the AWS Snow Family on AWS to migrate their large volume of data.
    May 2022
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    Earth on AWS

    Visit Earth on AWS to learn about building planetary-scale applications in the cloud with open geospatial data.

Benefits of sharing data on AWS

Global community of users

Global community of users

When you share data on AWS, you make it available to a large and growing community of developers, startups, and enterprises around the world.

Reduced time to insight

Reduced time to insight

In AWS, tools to analyze data are only ever a click away, which means you reduce the time it takes for people to start working with your data.

New services and tools

New services and tools

The AWS Cloud expands daily, and data shared on AWS becomes more useful as new features and services are released.

Lower cost of research

Lower cost of research

Researchers can analyze data shared on AWS without needing to pay to store their own copy. They only pay for the compute they use, and do not need to purchase storage to start a project.

Open Data Sponsorship Program

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program covers the cost of storage for publicly available high-value cloud-optimized datasets. We work with data providers who seek to:

  • Democratize access to data by making it available for analysis on AWS
  • Develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data
  • Encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets
Learn how to propose your dataset to the Open Data Sponsorship Program