--- title: AWS Data Exchange Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Data Exchange Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Data Exchange works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 16 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # AWS Data Exchange Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Data Exchange Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-exchange-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About AWS Data Exchange AWS Data Exchange makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. ## AWS Data Exchange Reviews ### 1. Very Poor, Risky and Under Resourced Product **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ike B. | General Manager of Product-Led Growth, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Data Exchange?** There is a lot of ability to create structure to different datasets that you want to list in the exchange. **What do you dislike about AWS Data Exchange?** There have been a lot of problems with ADX. First, the entire system is incredibly clunky from beginning to end. First, by AWS's own admission they're missing a lot of "tablestakes functionality" like the ability to see who is coming to your pages, more flexibility to edit and update your listings, the ability to create a storefront or catalog that actually tries to sell your products. All-in-all you're flying completely blind with AWS. In our convos with other sellers we strongly believe very little organic traffic is flowing through the AWS exchange. For the headache, it's not worth the time or the effort. It's very difficult to market or sell your products. We've also had a number of simple UX bugs where they just don't accurately reflect the attributes of your product. For instance for an S3 bucket they had "+metered costs" displayed to one of our buyers in the price. This of course caused a lot of confusion. They also misrepresented the historical revisions that were available in our product sets because of another UX bug. It's difficult to know what other things in the UX are also broken and incongruent. We also did have a purchase, but the seller is completely at their whim at providing you fake emails, fake company names, fake use cases because AWS hasn't thought through simple workflows like "why even have subscription confirmation if I can fake literally everything about a subscription request." So as a result we're now in an endless, timewasting, unhelpful thread with AWS support trying to get payment. They're confused of what to do and we feel completely lost. Lastly, the AWS team has been abysmal in addressing our concerns. Conversations with them result in a laundry list of excuses of why simple functionalities are so hard (including just having accurate documentation). It was a very frustrating and unproductive call. Our objective of our call was to help us see that ADX is a well-resourced and well-visioned product. Ultimately they couldn't clearly articulate who they built the exchange for both on the seller side and the buyer side. Don't waste your time. This is at best a very foggy experiment. Look at other sellers, they have a lot of free pages to try to get attention, but then have smart tactics to divert transactions away from the ADX. Ultimately, smart move. Why give 8-10% of your cut to a product that is basically bare-bones infrastructure. **What problems is AWS Data Exchange solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to scale our data sales and infrastructure. Ultimately both objectives have failed. ## AWS Data Exchange Discussions - [When was AWS Data Exchange launched?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/when-was-aws-data-exchange-launched) - [What is a data exchange system?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/aws-data-exchange-what-is-a-data-exchange-system) - [What is a data exchange system?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-data-exchange-system) - [How does AWS data exchange work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/aws-data-exchange-how-does-aws-data-exchange-work) - [How does AWS data exchange work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-aws-data-exchange-work) - [View AWS Data Exchange pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-data-exchange/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+14%3A40%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8cbdfd6b-1648-48b1-8581-684af04bb3db&secure%5Btoken%5D=3a4b08e4912dd22dea550bc94aefaedcf155e56899286ea0dd1211dc2b6766f5&format=llm_user) ## AWS Data Exchange Features **Exchange Functions** - Data Transmission - Data Normalization **Data as a Service** - Market Data Acquisition - Industry Data Acquisition - Source Data Acquisition - Targeted Data Acquisition **Management** - Source and Destination Selection - Solution Integration - Reporting and Visualization - Data Governance ## Top AWS Data Exchange Alternatives - [Crunchbase](https://www.g2.com/products/crunchbase/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (403 reviews) - [Google Analytics](https://www.g2.com/products/google-analytics/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (6,584 reviews) - [Snowflake Data Exchange](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake-data-exchange/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (21 reviews)