The Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Are Betting on Managed Iceberg

Wondering why open table formats are suddenly booming? Why is AWS investing heavily in making Iceberg tables on S3, and why did Databricks pay a reported $2B to acquire Tabular? The answers might change how we think about data architecture. Historically, object storage like Amazon S3 or R2 was used as inexpensive, scalable storage for unstructured files, while structured data typically went to…