Amazon MSK Express introduced native integration delivering Kafka topics continuously as Apache Iceberg streaming tables stored on Amazon S3. This reduces ingestion and query costs by eliminating complex custom pipelines and addressing the small-file problem through inline compaction, maintaining predictable query performance without sacrificing data freshness.
The new capability supports up to 10 GB/s delivery throughput with built-in concurrency control, avoiding incremental infrastructure costs by not adding broker egress throughput. Customers can query these tables using engines like Spark, Trino, or Flink, facilitating near real-time analytics on streaming data with simplified pipeline management across all supported AWS regions.
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Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg ↗Source published 2026-07-30. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.