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

AWS integrates DuckDB into Aurora to query data lake formats directly

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards·30 Sept 2026, 17:22

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

Amazon Web Services has added native support within Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for directly querying Apache Iceberg and Parquet datasets housed in cloud data lakes. The integration leverages an embedded DuckDB engine to execute unified queries across transactional and analytics data without requiring pipeline extraction. The feature connects with AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon S3, incorporating performance enhancements such as caching and predicate pushdown.

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