
AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables, enabling automatic registration into Glue Catalog and simplifying migration from other Iceberg catalogs with schema extraction and updates.


<div><p>This article announces AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables, simplifying adoption of AWS Glue Data Catalog for Iceberg workloads.</p><ul><li>Automatically register Iceberg tables into Glue Catalog by running Glue Crawler</li><li>Query Iceberg tables across various analytics engines</li><li>Apply Lake Formation fine-grained permissions when querying from Amazon Athena</li><li>Migrate from other Iceberg Catalogs by providing S3 paths to Glue Crawler</li><li>Supports schema merging across snapshots and updates metadata file locations</li><li>Available in all commercial regions where AWS Glue is available</li></ul><p>This feature simplifies Iceberg table management and catalog migration by integrating Apache Iceberg support directly into AWS Glue Crawlers.</p></div>


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