Cross-platform data sharing is now a business requirement. Customers expect timely operational insight. Suppliers need current demand and real-time inventory signals. Subsidiaries, regional teams, and acquired businesses often work on different analytics platforms. Yet many organizations rely on exports, duplicated tables, and hand-built integrations. Every new copy adds delay, cost, and governance risk.
Cloudera Data Sharing changes that by making it easy for any consumer of data — customers, suppliers, regional teams, partners, subsidiaries — to access a single, live copy of data without duplication or movement. Powered by Apache Iceberg REST Catalog, it enables cross-platform access and keeps governance unified..
For business leaders, that means faster and easier collaboration without the operational drag of constantly replicating data. For platform teams, it means a more repeatable provider-to-consumer model for internal and external sharing. And for partner and customer stakeholders, it offers direct, governed access to data from their own Cloudera environments, so they can analyze, integrate, and act on it with their own tools, without waiting on exports or custom pipelines.
Where this matters most
1. Supplier and channel collaboration
A common use case is sharing operational data with suppliers, distributors, and resellers. Manufacturers can expose approved inventory or production tables as data products to external partners so those partners can plan against live data instead of waiting for extracts or reconciling different versions of the truth. That supports faster replenishment decisions, better production planning, and less friction across the supply chain.
Our customers in the manufacturing, healthcare, and automobile industries share their inventory and manufacturing data with resellers and suppliers to give them secure, real-time access to supply chain data.
2. Customer-facing data products and shared analytics
Many companies want to give customers direct access to usage, service, or operational data, without building or maintaining a separate export pipeline for every account. Cloudera Data Sharing provides a cleaner model for scenarios where customer-specific datasets already exist as approved Iceberg tables.
Customers can concurrently consume that data from their own analytics stack, while the provider keeps data and governance anchored in Cloudera. That strengthens premium analytics offerings, improves transparency, and reduces the manual overhead of customer reporting. This reflects a proven model that Cloudera customers use today to securely share governed Iceberg data with external clients on third-party platforms.
3. Multi-platform business units and post-M&A collaboration
Not every business unit runs on the same analytics platform. In many enterprises, central platform teams may manage critical data in Cloudera, while regional businesses, acquired companies, or partner organizations use Databricks, Snowflake, or AWS.
Cloudera Data Sharing bridges these environments without forcing an immediate migration. Teams can share approved Iceberg data outward from Cloudera so the consumer side can work on its preferred platform and access the data in real time, while the provider side keeps the data in Cloudera.
How it works
Cloudera Data Sharing enables secure, zero-copy sharing of Iceberg tables from Cloudera on cloud to external consumers using engines that support the Iceberg REST API, including Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Redshift.
Instead of moving data into another platform, providers can share live data from the Cloudera environment where it already lives and is already governed.
Cloudera Data Catalog provides centralized control, security, and auditing for sharing data with external parties. That means:
Lifecycle management of shares: Manage the entire sharing process, from creating a data share, modifying it, renewing it, or revoking it when no longer needed.
Secure credential handling: Safely manage authentication details (user accounts, tokens, permissions, etc.) so only authorized people can access shared data.
Audit visibility for access events and share updates: Keep logs showing who accessed data, when they accessed it, and any changes made to sharing permissions or configurations.
Why Cloudera is different
Cloudera Data Sharing lets enterprises share governed Iceberg data directly from the Cloudera environment where that data already lives. This matters because data sharing should not require copying data into another platform or shifting provider-side governance away from the data foundation. Organizations can share live, approved data with customers, suppliers, partners, or business units while keeping access control, authorization, and auditability connected to their Cloudera data estate.
In a crowded market, this is Cloudera’s sharper value proposition: share governed Iceberg data outward from Cloudera to the platforms your ecosystem already uses, without copy-and-move workflows or duplicate pipelines.
See Data Sharing in Action
Explore how Cloudera Data Sharing works with this interactive demo.
Cloudera Data Sharing gives enterprises a practical way to collaborate with customers, suppliers, and partners across platforms without creating another copy of the data to manage. And because Cloudera builds on Iceberg REST Catalog as a foundation for broader secure sharing and future marketplace-style models, this release unlocks a strong path to delivering longer-term external data product strategies.
Demo Video: Data Sharing Webinar 2026
