Generally available: Azure Data Share

Customers can use Azure Data Share to easily and securely share big data stored in Azure with other organisations. As a fully managed service, Azure Data Share does not require infrastructure to set up and it enables efficient sharing of big data. With just a few clicks, data professionals can share both structured and unstructured data from a variety of Azure data sources. Azure Data Share provides full visibility into data-sharing relationships, including what data is shared and who it is shared with. Use snapshot-based sharing to provide a copy of the data and in-place sharing (preview) to enable access to data at source. * **Easily share data across organisational boundaries** with no need to set up infrastructure or write code * **Governed sharing with centralised management** and visibility into what data is shared and who it is shared with * **Share both structured and unstructured data**: data consumer has the flexibility to choose which Azure data store receives the data * **Snapshot-based sharing to provide a copy of the data:** supports Blob, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DW * **In-place sharing (preview) to enable access to data at source:** supports Azure Data Explorer [Watch a Demo](https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/azure-data-share) [Get Started](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-share/) * Azure Data Share * Services * [ Azure Data Share](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/data-share/)