Category: Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon S3 Metadata now provides comprehensive visibility into all objects in S3 buckets through live inventory and journal tables, enabling SQL-based analysis of both existing and new objects with automatic updates within an hour of changes.

Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.