Enabling cross account discoverability

With Amazon Resource Access Manager (Amazon RAM) you can securely share the feature group catalog, which contains all of your feature group and feature resources, with other Amazon Web Services accounts. This lets members of your team search and discover feature groups and features that span multiple accounts, promoting data consistency, streamlining collaboration, and reducing duplication of effort.

The resource owner account can share resources with other individual Amazon Web Services accounts by granting permissions using Amazon RAM. The resource consumer account is the Amazon Web Services account with whom a resource is shared, limited by the permissions granted from the resource owner account. If you are an organization, you may want to take advantage of Amazon Organizations, with which you can share resources with individual Amazon Web Services accounts, with all accounts in your organization, or in an Organization Unit (OU), without having to apply permissions to each account. For instructional videos and more information about Amazon RAM concepts and benefits, see What is Amazon Resource Access Manager? in the Amazon RAM User Guide.

This section covers how the resource owner account can choose the feature group catalog and grant discoverability privilege to resource consumer accounts, and then how the resource consumer accounts with the discoverability privilege can use search and discover the feature groups within the resource owner account. The discoverability permission does not grant access permissions (read-only, read-write, or admin). Access permissions are granted at a resource level and not at the account level. For information about granting access permissions, see Enabling cross account access.

The following topics discuss how to share the feature group catalog and how to search for shared resources with discoverability permissions applied.