Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg: Enterprise Open Data Comes to AWS and Azure
A New Era for Open Data Formats Snowflake has announced the general availability of Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg on both AWS and Azure, marking a significant shift in how enterprises can build open, interoperable data lakehouses. This development combines Snowflake’s enterprise reliability and governance capabilities with the flexibility and openness of Apache Iceberg, one of the most promising open table formats in the data ecosystem. What is Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg? Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg enables users to query and manage Iceberg tables using Snowflake’s SQL engine while storing data in their own cloud object storage. This is fundamentally different from traditional Snowflake architectures—you get: ...