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New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads

by craigkerstiens on 12/3/24, 4:52 PM with 3 comments

• by exergy on 12/3/24, 9:24 PM

  A managed iceberg service, marketed as a new S3 bucket type.

  I thought AWS was dropping the ball on Open Table Formats, but this one is a smart move and a direct shot fired at Databricks with Delta.

  Simply by making it the default for software engineers wanting a big data table on S3

• by jamesblonde on 12/3/24, 8:48 PM

  They are like s3 buckets, but you write iceberg tables. They will do maintenance for you, make it available in AWS Glue for querying via Athena, etc.

  Instead of $23.5/TB/month for normal s3, it's $26.5/TB/month for s3 tables. That's cheap. They charge for compactions and other table services, but are cheap.

  AWS have been falling behind Databricks-Snowflake at the higher AI layers, but going low (metaphorically and literally) this puts the cat amongst the pigeons with them. At what point should the competition lawyers look at this?