Introducing catalog federation for Apache Iceberg tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog
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This article introduces catalog federation for Apache Iceberg tables in AWS Glue Data Catalog, enabling querying of remote Iceberg tables across multi-vendor environments without data migration.
- Query remote Iceberg tables stored in S3 and cataloged in remote systems
- Supports Snowflake Polaris Catalog, Databricks Unity Catalog, and custom Iceberg REST catalogs
- AWS Glue fetches latest metadata in background for real-time access
- Lake Formation provides fine-grained access control and credential vending
- Eliminates need for metadata synchronization processes and data duplication
- Works with Athena, EMR, Redshift, and SageMaker analytics engines
- Supports OAuth2 and custom authentication mechanisms
Catalog federation simplifies multi-vendor data management by enabling secure, governed access to remote Iceberg tables through AWS analytics services without operational overhead of maintaining catalog synchronization.
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