AWS Expands Amazon S3 With Features To Support Apache Iceberg And Metadata Management
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its re:Invent conference today significant updates to its Amazon Simple Storage Service that are designed to make S3 the first cloud object store with fully managed support for Apache Iceberg.
The move to S3 supporting Apache Iceberg will deliver faster analytics and make it easier to store and manage tabular data on any scale. Additional new features announced include the ability to automatically generate queryable metadata, simplifying data discovery and understanding to help customers unlock the value of their data in S3.
Amazon S3 Tables is the first cloud object store to feature built-in Apache Iceberg table support, introducing a specialized bucket type for optimized storage and querying of tabular data. S3 Tables delivers up to three times faster query performance, 10 times higher transactions per second, and automated maintenance to simplify analytics workloads.