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Asanka Boteju
Asanka Boteju

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Amazon S3 Tables: A Game Changer in Analytics and Data Lake Space

Simplified data management and optimized query performance for workloads at any scale and as and when data grows.

What it offers:
1. Scalability.
2. Enhanced Performance.
3. Fully managed service.
4. seamless integration.
5. Simplified Security.

Historically, businesses and consumers have utilized Amazon S3 as a data lake to store enormous volumes of data workloads, which fueled analytics, machine learning workloads, and innovation across industries. However, securing and managing the data as it scales efficiently was challenging and required building complicated systems, which became a costly operation.

Amazon S3 tables, a new type of S3 bucket that is purpose-built to store tabular data and to lower cost for data at scale, make it easy to create and secure managed tables with just a few simple steps. You can define and manage access control policies and enforce security directly at the storage level.

Goodbye! to the maintenance complexity, governance, and lower query performance-related issues that you had to deal with manually. The new S3 Tables feature provides native support for Apache Iceberg and minimizes the operational complexities associated with Iceberg.

With S3 Tables, you get 3x faster, optimized query performance than querying tabular data that is stored in S3 buckets. To reduce your operational burden, AWS manages data compaction, snapshot management, and partitioning for you. S3 Tables also provides seamless integration with Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and EMR services.

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