Cloud Architecture
Modern Data Lake on AWS (2026): S3 Tables, Iceberg Compaction, and Analytics Tier Reference Architecture
For an enterprise lake (~38 TB Iceberg, 8.4k small files), S3 Tables managed compaction cut Athena scan spend 35%, and compaction OPEX is 90% lower than under pre-July 2025 pricing on the same workload.
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