This is a guest post by Andries Engelbrecht, Principal Partner Solutions Engineer at Snowflake, in partnership with AWS.
AWS announced a new catalog federation feature that allows you to directly access data from Snowflake Horizon Catalog through the AWS Glue Data Catalog. This integration enables you to discover and query Horizon Catalog data in Iceberg format through REST endpoints while applying fine-grained access controls using AWS Lake Formation. The new catalog federation combined with Snowflake’s catalog-linked database feature means users can access data stored across AWS and Snowflake from a single point of entry, reducing data movement and associated costs by eliminating the need to duplicate data across platforms.
In this post, we show you how to connect the AWS Glue Data Catalog to Snowflake Horizon Catalog and query the data using AWS analytics services. We cover how to set up catalogs in Horizon Catalog and configure required permissions,…
