Amazon SageMaker Catalog adds support for governed classification with restricted terms

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports governed classification through Restricted Classification Terms, allowing catalog administrators to control which users and projects can apply sensitive glossary terms to their assets. This new capability is designed to help organizations enforce metadata standards and ensure classification consistency across teams and domains.

With this launch, glossary terms can be marked as "restricted", and only authorized users or groups—defined through explicit policies—can use them to classify data assets. For example, a centralized data governance team may define terms like “Seller-MCF” or “PII” that reflect data handling policies. These terms can now be governed so only specific project members (e.g., trusted admin groups) can apply them, which helps support proper control over how sensitive classifications are assigned.

This feature is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.

To get started and learn more about this feature, see SageMaker Unified Studio user guide.