Go under the hood of Amazon S3 with AWS engineering leader Andy Warfield—from virtualization to Iceberg

In this season of the Analytics Engineering podcast, Tristan is deep into the world of developer tools and databases. If you’re following us here, you’ve almost definitely used Amazon S3 it and its Blob Storage siblings at Microsoft and Google. They form the foundation for nearly all data work in the cloud. In many ways, it was the innovations that happened inside of S3 that have unlocked all of the progress in cloud data over the last decade.

In this episode, Tristan talks with Andy Warfield, VP and senior principal engineer at AWS, where he focuses primarily on storage. They go deep on S3, how it works, and what it unlocks. They close out talking about Iceberg, S3 table buckets, and what this all suggests about the outlines of the S3 product roadmap moving forward.