Amazon S3 Tables Enhance CreateTable API with Partition and Sort Order Definitions

Amazon S3 Tables released API enhancements allowing users to programmatically specify partition and sort order properties during table creation, streamlining data management and optimization.

By Daniel Brooks · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-13 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-13. Source published: 2026-02-12. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

The CreateTable API for Amazon S3 Tables was updated to support partition transform and sort order definitions, enabling customers to specify how data is partitioned and sorted at the time of table creation. This allows better management of data layouts for efficient query performance and storage optimization, particularly when working with large datasets.

Users can now define these attributes via the AWS CLI and SDKs by upgrading to the latest versions. This feature is available across all AWS regions supporting S3 Tables, simplifying development and automation workflows by embedding partitioning strategies directly into table definitions.

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Amazon S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API ↗

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