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Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types | Amazon Web Services

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Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 specification. You can create V3 tables or upgrade existing V2 tables to take advantage of V3 features like deletion vectors, row lineage, and new data types such as variant, nanosecond timestamps, unknown, geometry, and geography.

Apache Iceberg has become the open standard for managing large analytics datasets. It lets you manage petabyte-scale tables with features like schema evolution, hidden partitioning, and time travel queries, while keeping your data in open Parquet files in data lakes on object storage like Amazon S3. Amazon S3 Tables offer storage purpose-built to keep Iceberg tables performant and cost-effective as they grow, with fully managed features like automatic compaction, maintenance, replication, and Intelligent-Tiering.

Teams running analytics on Apache Iceberg V2 tables often hit the same limits as their data grows. A compliance request to delete 50,000 user records from a 2-billion-row...

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