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Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

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AWS·Sep 30, 2026, 04:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Aurora PostgreSQL can now query external Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in S3 or Glue via PostgreSQL foreign tables
Uses an embedded DuckDB engine to query Iceberg/Parquet directly and optionally materialize results into native tables without ETL pipelines
Feature is generally available in Aurora PostgreSQL 17.11, 18.6+ across all commercial and GovCloud regions at no extra charge

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