Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake

Esra Kayabali (AWS)
2026-09-30
Article Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
Publication AWS News Blog

An article announcing that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL can directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in a data lake. DuckDB is embedded within Aurora PostgreSQL and handles the analytical scans of the data lake files, allowing users to combine live operational data with Iceberg data in a single query.