Amazon's S3 Tables: Challenges and Opportunities

This chapter explores Amazon's new S3 tables feature announced at the reInvent event, emphasizing its integration with tools like Spark and Flink. The speakers discuss the implications of the new compaction pricing model and the competitive landscape of data warehouses, particularly how AWS could leverage Iceberg to regain market share. They also address challenges in data integration and the importance of optimizing data loading and access management within AWS's ecosystem.