Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake | Amazon Web Services

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Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that you can use to directly query operational data together with data stored in your data lake in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats, using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools. By eliminating the need to extract, transform, and load (ETL) structured data from data lakes into your operational database, you can reduce operational complexity and simplify application development. You can also use Aurora PostgreSQL to query data from data lakes managed in Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC)-compatible catalogs, giving you access to data across a breadth of analytics systems without moving or duplicating it. Whether you’re powering real-time dashboards, enriching transactions with historical context, or building AI agents that reason over both live and archived data, you can now do it all through a single, familiar interface.

Previously, if your application needed to combine recent transactional data...

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