Registry of Open Data on AWS
Amazon Web ServicesThe Registry of Open Data on AWS is a catalog of public datasets that government agencies, researchers and companies make available in AWS storage. Data providers propose entries as YAML files by pull request, and AWS's open data team decides what is listed. Each entry names the S3 buckets or other resources that hold the data, which anyone can read without an AWS account, and the Open Data Sponsorship Program pays storage costs for sponsored datasets.
Openness
2 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- partial(the registry's entries and schema are published
Every entry in the registry is a YAML file in a public Apache-2.0 repository, so the catalog's content can be read and reused. The website built from those files is not published, and admission and storage sponsorship are decisions AWS makes.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/HEAD/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07
Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004, full text.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-10-07
"Each dataset in this repository is described with metadata saved in a YAML file in the /datasets directory. We use these YAML files to provide three services".
Adoption
not assessedThe registry publishes no count of visits or of reads from the buckets it lists, and those reads would belong to each dataset's provider rather than to the catalog. No reading was recorded.
- https://registry.opendata.aws/ recorded 2026-10-07
Registry home page listing datasets by provider and tag; no usage figure.
Capability
1 medium confidenceThe registry describes datasets that their providers own and maintain, and points to the AWS storage that holds them, which any S3 client can read without an account. The registry itself stores and versions nothing, so like Masader it is a catalog that links out, while UCI holds the datasets it serves.
- https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/open-data-sponsorship-program/ recorded 2026-10-07
"The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program covers the cost of storing and sharing publicly available, high-value, cloud-optimized datasets on the Registry of Open Data on AWS."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md recorded 2026-10-07
"Datasets are included at the discretion of the AWS Open Data team, which may remove datasets from the registry at any time."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/open-data-registry/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-10-07
"these datasets are owned and maintained by a variety of government organizations, researchers, businesses, and individuals"; "Resources > ARN: Amazon Resource Name for resource, e.g. arn:aws:s3:::commoncrawl".
- https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/ recorded 2026-10-07
Resources on AWS: S3 bucket arn:aws:s3:::noaa-goes19; "AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required) aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-goes19/".
Verified 2026-10-07