Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3

Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification. You can now write semi-structured data like JSON directly to S3 Tables without defining a fixed schema in advance, allowing you to land data faster while still getting efficient analytical query performance. With the Variant data type, Apache Iceberg V3-compatible engines shred your semi-structured data into hidden columns as you write it, generating Parquet column statistics that query engines use for optimizations like file pruning, which reduces the data your analytical queries