Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables

Today, we’re announcing two new capabilities for Amazon S3 Tables: support for the new Intelligent-Tiering storage class that automatically optimizes costs based on access patterns, and replication support to automatically maintain consistent Apache Iceberg table replicas across AWS Regions and accounts without manual sync.

Organizations working with tabular data face two common challenges. First, they need to manually manage storage costs as their datasets grow and access patterns change over time. Second, when maintaining replicas of Iceberg tables across Regions or accounts, they must build and maintain complex architectures to track updates, manage object replication, and handle metadata transformations.

S3 Tables Intelligent-Tiering storage class
With the S3 Tables Intelligent-Tiering storage class, data is automatically tiered to the most cost-effective access tier based on access patterns. Data is stored in three low-latency tiers: Frequent Access, Infrequent Access (40% lower cost than Frequent Access), and Archive Instant Access (68% lower cost ...