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Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Samsung Ads Federates Snowflake Iceberg Tables Without Data Duplication

Samsung Ads figured out how to query Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg tables directly from Amazon Athena through AWS Lake Formation, using Amazon Cognito for secure machine-to-machine OAuth2 auth—no messy data copies needed. It's a clean data engineering move that keeps your analytics pipeline lean while maintaining solid security.

source: [aws/big-data-blog]