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Amazon DataZone (Standalone Governance Brand) Amazon SageMaker Catalog (built on Amazon DataZone)

Enterprise data and AI governance catalog built on Amazon DataZone for discovering, curating, sharing, and governing data and ML assets within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.

Naming timeline

  1. Amazon DataZone (Standalone Governance Brand)

    · General Availability

    Announced in preview at re:Invent 2022 (Nov 2022) and reached general availability on October 4, 2023 as a business data catalog and governance service.

  2. Amazon SageMaker Catalog (built on Amazon DataZone)Current name

    · Unified Studio Integration

    Launched as the integrated data and AI governance catalog inside Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, powered by the Amazon DataZone engine and datazone API.

Is Amazon DataZone (Standalone Governance Brand) the same as Amazon SageMaker Catalog (built on Amazon DataZone)?

Enterprise data and AI governance catalog built on Amazon DataZone for discovering, curating, sharing, and governing data and ML assets within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. At AWS re:Invent on December 3, 2024, AWS introduced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker featuring Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, which is built on Amazon DataZone.

Also known as

  • Amazon DataZone
  • SageMaker Unified Studio Catalog

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. This entry clarifies scope and naming rather than documenting a rename; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below are the current identifiers.

AWS Service APIs / SDKsdatazone
AWS CLI Commandsaws datazone
IAM Actions & Policiesdatazone:*
Terraform Resources (aws_*)aws_datazone_domain aws_datazone_project aws_datazone_environment aws_datazone_glossary

The datazone API, aws datazone CLI, datazone:* IAM actions, and aws_datazone_* Terraform resources remain active and power both standalone Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker Catalog.

Notes & disambiguation

  • At AWS re:Invent on December 3, 2024, AWS introduced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker featuring Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, which is built on Amazon DataZone.
  • Standalone Amazon DataZone remains an active AWS service for standalone data governance deployments, and administrators can upgrade DataZone domains in place to Amazon SageMaker unified domains while keeping both portals accessible.
  • Both standalone Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker Catalog share the underlying datazone API namespace, aws datazone CLI commands, datazone:* IAM actions, and aws_datazone_* Terraform resources.

Sources & official documentation

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