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Important
This feature is currently being retired, with support provided until September 2025 to allow for migration to Microsoft Fabric external data sharing.
Traditionally, organizations have shared data with internal teams or external partners by generating data feeds, requiring investment in data copy and refresh pipelines. The result is higher cost for data storage and movement, data proliferation (that is, multiple copies of data), and delay in access to time-sensitive data.
With Microsoft Purview Data Sharing, data providers can now share data in-place from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Storage accounts, both within and across organizations. Share data directly with users and partners without data duplication and centrally manage your sharing activities from within Microsoft Purview.
With Microsoft Purview Data Sharing, data consumers can now have near real-time access to shared data. Storage data access and transactions are charged to the data consumers based on what they use, and at no more cost to the data providers.
Get started with Microsoft Purview in-place data sharing for Azure Storage by reviewing the next steps or following the Data Sharing Quickstart.
Important
Data sharing is accessed through the classic Microsoft Purview governance portal: https://web.purview.azure.com
Supported data store | Data Sharing |
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Azure Blob Storage | Yes |
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 | Yes |
Microsoft Purview enables sharing of files and folders in-place from ADLS Gen2 and Blob storage accounts.
A data provider creates a share by selecting a data source that is registered in Microsoft Purview, choosing which files and folders to share, and who to share them with. Microsoft Purview then sends an invitation to each data consumer.
When a consumer accepts the invitation, they specify a target storage account in their own Azure subscription that they'll use to access the shared data. This establishes a sharing relationship between the provider and consumer storage accounts. This sharing relationship provides data consumer read-only access to shared data through the consumer’s storage account. Any changes to the data in the provider’s source storage account is reflected in near real-time in the consumer’s storage account.
The data provider pays for data storage and their own data access, while the data consumer pays for their own data access transactions.
Data providers can revoke access to the shared data at any time, or set a share expiration time for time-bound access to data. Data consumers can also terminate access to the share at any time.
Microsoft Purview Data Sharing only stores metadata about your share. It doesn't store a copy of the shared data itself. The data is stored in the underlying source storage account that is being shared. You can have your storage accounts in a different Azure region than your Microsoft Purview account.
Microsoft Purview Data Sharing can help with various data sharing scenarios, including:
If you have any questions, please reach out to your account manager or customer support. If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request.
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