Very Poor and Risky Experience with AWS Data Exchange
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We wanted to use AWS Data Exchange to list, sell and deliver our dataset in the open market. We have roughly 22 datasets that cover specific topical areas and industries. We update these sets on a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the data.
Pros
- Allow you to make private transactions of data
- Organize your datasets
- Provide custom legal data services agreements
Cons
- Poor transparency for sellers
- Little verification of accounts requesting subscriptions
- Confusing, buggy and misleading UX
- Very poor development focus, roadmap and investment in the product
- Bad experience for buyers of the data
- Poor account service
Return on Investment
- AWS Data Exchange required a lot of time to setup and was hard to QA
- We have had a lot of traffic flow to ADX with no conversion.
- We had bad transactions because of compromised accounts, but AWS doesn't provide sellers with enough information/verification to trust subscription request
- Buggy user experience so there have been erroneous details about our listings
- Confusing documentation that is often not detailed enough or erroneous
