AWS announced S3 Tables yesterday, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem. Here’s a quick rundown of my thoughts so far: The integration is deep. This isn’t a separate service that sits on top of S3. Rather AWS has added a new type of bucket to the S3 service itself: a table bucket. This design seems to be S3’s new standard practice for these major, paradigm-shifting features. Express One Zone works analo...