Deliver Apache Kafka data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg with Amazon MSK Express brokers

AWS announces delivery to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg with Amazon MSK Express brokers, enabling automatic materialization of Kafka data as queryable Iceberg tables on S3 Tables without managing infrastructure.

• Continuously materializes streaming Kafka data as queryable Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables
• Eliminates need to deploy, scale, or maintain Kafka connectors, Flink jobs, or custom consumers
• Provides up to 60% cost savings compared to self-managed alternatives and reduces query costs by up to 30%
• Offers built-in write coordination, exactly-once delivery semantics, and intelligent inline compaction
• Automatically registers tables in AWS Glue Data Catalog for discovery and semantic search
• Pricing: $10/TB for S3 Tables delivery, $8/TB for general purpose S3 buckets
• Includes Agent Skill for AI-assisted setup and configuration of streaming table integrations

Delivery to streaming tables provides a fully managed end-to-end real-time data architecture from Kafka ingestion through S3 storage to analytics with Amazon Athena, Redshift, and Spark.