Data Share Roadmap

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Azure Data Share is a service that supports the distribution of bulk data snapshots from Azure data services such as Azure Storage Blobs to other customers also using those services. Data Share is quick to deploy and scale, and it can provide better security and data governance than traditional data-sharing solutions, such as FTP, APIs, e-mail, and extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions

Product: Azure Data Share

Near Term and Long Term

The service was made generally available in Nov. 2019 and has had few updates since its original release other than ending support for ADLS Gen 1 storage, which retired in Feb. 2024.

There are a number of functional gaps and integrations with Data Share that Microsoft has not addressed in the last six years:

No connection to OneLake, Microsoft’s new data analytics store

Does not query data in Cosmos DB (SQL tables), Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or Azure Database for MySQL

Lack of data governance through Purview

Incremental

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