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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3

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AWS·Oct 1, 2026, 08:00 AMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Introduced table optimization (compact, binpack, sort, z-order) for Iceberg V3 tables to improve query performance and reduce storage costs.
Added generation of NDV statistics for Iceberg V3 tables to aid query planning.
Enabled Glue crawlers to discover and register Iceberg V3 tables stored in Amazon S3.

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