Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon S3 Tables announces Intelligent-Tiering storage and cross-region replication support for Apache Iceberg tables.

• •Intelligent-Tiering moves data through Frequent Access, Infrequent Access (40% lower cost), and Archive Instant Access (68% lower cost) tiers automatically
• •Data transitions to Infrequent Access after 30 days and Archive Instant Access after 90 days without access
• •Compaction only processes Frequent Access tier data, reducing maintenance overhead on colder files
• •Replication creates read-only replica tables across AWS Regions and accounts, updated within minutes of source changes
• •Replicas support independent encryption and retention policies, queryable via Spark, DuckDB, PyIceberg, and Trino