Amazon S3 Tables Now Provide a Simple, Cost-Effective Path for Data Lake Modernization
AWS, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg while production workloads keep running.
AWS says S3 Tables can now validate, convert and copy Hive tables into query-ready Iceberg tables, avoiding custom per-table migration pipelines.
Users can review each step, sync destination tables with source changes, or roll back to source data.
Customers pay only for data copied, with no charge for conversion, and Snappy-compressed tables are recompressed to Zstandard and compacted.
At launch it supports AWS Glue-registered Hive tables in Parquet format in the same account and region, across ten AWS regions, and a migration skill is available in the Agent Toolkit for AWS.