Author: Andries Engelbrecht

AWS has introduced a new catalog federation feature that enables direct access to Snowflake Horizon Catalog data through AWS Glue Data Catalog. This integration allows organizations to discover and query data in Iceberg format while maintaining security through AWS Lake Formation. This post provides a step-by-step guide to establishing this integration, including configuring Snowflake Horizon Catalog, setting up authentication, creating necessary IAM roles, and implementing AWS Lake Formation permissions. Learn how to enable cross-platform analytics while maintaining robust security and governance across your data environment.

Customers are using AWS and Snowflake to develop purpose-built data architectures that provide the performance required for modern analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. Implementing these solutions requires data sharing between purpose-built data stores. This is why Snowflake and AWS are delivering enhanced support for Apache Iceberg to enable and facilitate data interoperability between data services. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format that provides reliability, simplicity, and high performance for large datasets with transactional integrity between various processing engines.