Ask HN: Are we going to see a portable S3 Tables alternative outside AWS?

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2 points by KankanHuo 6 days ago

AWS announced S3 Tables earlier this year, and the integration with Iceberg is clearly the direction for AI/analytics data stacks. But the native S3 Tables implementation is locked inside AWS.

For those of us running self-hosted or multi-cloud, what are the current options?

Using regular S3 + separate catalog (Hive/Glue/Polaris) – metadata overhead and extra ops

Apache Ozone / Ceph + Iceberg – seems heavy for smaller teams

Something else I'm missing?

I've seen rumors about open-source projects adding native Iceberg table support directly in the storage layer (basically S3 Tables but portable). Would that actually help? What's the #1 pain point you'd want solved?

Curious to hear from people who tried to run Iceberg workloads outside AWS.