# Access an AWS Data Exchange data set containing Amazon Redshift data sets
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**Overview for recipients**

An Amazon Redshift data set is a data set that contains AWS Data Exchange datashares for Amazon Redshift. Datashares give you read-only access to the tables, views, schemas, and user-defined functions that a data owner adds to the datashare.

As a recipient, after you accept a data grant, you get access to query the data in Amazon Redshift without extracting, transforming, and loading data. You lose access to the datashare after your data grant expires.

**Note**  
It might take a few minutes to access the datashares after you accept the data grant.

After accepting a data grant, you can do the following:
+ Query data without extracting, transforming, or loading data.

  Access the latest data as soon as the data owner updates it.

For more information, see [Managing AWS Data Exchange datashares](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/manage-adx-datashare-console.html) in the *Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide*.