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Introduction and Overview
- Adya Kalanikrishnan, a Product Manager on the Amazon S3 team, introduces a new capability called Amazon S3 Tables.
- James Borel, a Principal Applied Scientist on the Amazon SWE team, will join the session to discuss use cases and provide a demo.
- The session will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the S3 Tables capability
- How S3 Tables works, including new components and fundamentals
- Use cases and workloads
- Demos showcasing the new capability
The Evolution of Amazon S3
- When Amazon S3 was launched in 2006, it was intended as storage for the internet, allowing developers to store data securely and durably.
- Over the years, S3 has been used for a wide range of workloads, particularly in the areas of data analytics, machine learning, and AI.
- Customers have predominantly used S3 as a tabular data store, storing data in file formats like Apache Parquet.
- The use of open table formats like Apache Iceberg has provided a better framework for organizing and managing these data sets.
Challenges with Existing Iceberg Solutions
- While Iceberg's advanced capabilities have provided the reliability and flexibility needed for complex analytics workloads, customers still faced some challenges:
- Performance: Increased traffic and scaling demands required optimization efforts.
- Security and Governance: Enforcing security policies and governing tables required knowledge of the physical storage layout.
- Operational Burden: Optimizing costs by managing the lifecycle of table snapshots and data files.
Introducing Amazon S3 Tables
- S3 Tables is a purpose-built solution for storing tabular data in Amazon S3, providing fully managed Apache Iceberg tables.
- Key components of S3 Tables:
- Table Buckets: A new bucket type for storing Iceberg format tables natively in S3.
- Table Operations APIs: APIs for creating, reading, updating, and deleting tables.
- Table Management APIs: APIs for managing table-level and bucket-level policies and maintenance.
- S3 Tables provides:
- Optimized performance with up to 10x higher transactions per second and 3x faster queries.
- Simpler security controls through table-level resource policies.
- Automated cost optimization through lifecycle management of table snapshots and data files.
Integrating S3 Tables with the AWS Analytics Ecosystem
- S3 Tables integrates with the AWS analytics ecosystem, including services like:
- AWS Glue Data Catalog: Provides a centralized index of data sets, with S3 Tables automatically registered.
- Amazon Athena: Allows querying S3 Tables using SQL.
- Amazon Redshift: Enables querying S3 Tables through resource links.
- The integration with AWS Lake Formation allows for fine-grained access control, including the ability to control access to individual columns or rows within a table.
Accessing S3 Tables Beyond the AWS Ecosystem
- S3 Tables can be integrated with non-AWS analytics engines through the open-source Iceberg Catalog for Iceberg.
- This allows customers to bring their S3 Tables data to the analytics engine of their choice, whether it's running on AWS or elsewhere.
Conclusion and Next Steps
- S3 Tables is a fully managed Iceberg service that provides the benefits of Iceberg and the scale, performance, and cost-effectiveness of Amazon S3.
- The team is excited to hear feedback from customers and continue evolving the S3 Tables offering.
- Attendees are encouraged to check out the available documentation and provide feedback through the session survey.
