Data Share Roadmap

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. 

If Microsoft does invest in the service, it will likely focus on additional data sources, such as Fabric OneLake, Cosmos DB (SQL tables), Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Database for MySQL. Microsoft may also bring control over Data Share through Purview in order to apply data governance to snapshots, as well as implementing incremental updating for SQL-based data to avoid large snapshots and possibly in-place sharing for Storage Blobs and Data Lake data to avoid the need to transfer the data source itself.