AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform

But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines

Analysis Last week, AWS jumped into Iceberg with both feet. S3 Buckets, the near-ubiquitous storage containers for developers, got another layer. The dominant cloud platform provider introduced S3 Tables, for storing data in Apache Iceberg, an open table format (OTF), which promises developers and data engineers the ability to bring their analytics engines of choice to their data, wherever it resides, instead of moving it....