Apache Iceberg has become the standard choice of open table format for organizations seeking robust and reliable analytics at scale. However, enterprises increasingly find themselves navigating complex multi-vendor landscapes with disparate catalog systems. Managing data across these has become a major challenge for organizations operating in multi-vendor environments. This fragmentation drives significant operational complexity, particularly around access control and governance. Customers using AWS analytics services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue to analyze Iceberg tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog want to get the same price-performance for workloads in remote catalogs. Simply migrating or replacing these remote catalogs isn’t practical, leaving teams to implement and maintain synchronization processes that continuously replicate metadata across systems, creating operational overhead, escalating costs, and risking…
Introducing catalog federation for Apache Iceberg tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog | Amazon Web Services
