AWS embeds DuckDB in Aurora PostgreSQL for Iceberg queries

AWS added the DuckDB analytics engine to Aurora PostgreSQL, letting applications query Iceberg and Parquet data in S3 alongside live transactions without ETL pipelines. The feature is available in Aurora PostgreSQL 17.11 and 18.6 across all commercial regions at no extra feature charge.

• Queries join Aurora transactions with historical data in S3 and S3 Tables
• External Iceberg REST catalogs are supported via AWS Glue federation
• Enabled through the aurora_analytics extension and an IAM role for S3 and Glue
• Customers pay only for incremental Aurora compute and S3 requests