Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables

This article announces two new capabilities for Amazon S3 Tables: Intelligent-Tiering storage class and replication support for Apache Iceberg tables.

• Intelligent-Tiering automatically optimizes costs by tiering data across three access tiers based on usage patterns
• Data moves to Infrequent Access after 30 days, Archive Instant Access after 90 days without access
• Infrequent Access costs 40% less; Archive Instant Access costs 68% less than Infrequent Access
• Replication support maintains consistent read-only table replicas across AWS Regions and accounts
• Replicas update within minutes and support independent encryption and retention policies
• Replica tables queryable via SageMaker Unified Studio or any Iceberg-compatible engine
• No additional charges for Intelligent-Tiering; pay only storage costs per tier
• Replication pricing includes destination storage, PUT requests, updates, and data transfer costs
• Both features available today in all AWS Regions supporting S3 Tables

These capabilities simplify cost management and data distribution for organizations working with tabular data at scale.