As a data engineering dabbler; parquet in S3 is beautiful. So is DuckDB. What an incredible match.

Anybody tried S3 tables? How is your experience? It seems more tempting now that DuckDB supports it.

Haven't tried it. S3 Tables sounds like a great idea. However, I am wary. For it to be useful, a suite of AWS services probably needs to integrate with it. These services are all managed by different teams that don't always work well together out of the box and often compete with redundant products. For example, configuring SageMaker Studio to use an EMR cluster for Spark was a multi-day hassle with a lot of custom (insecure?) configuration. How is this different from other existing table offerings? AWS is a mess.