Original Japanese article: Iceberg REST Catalogを直接叩いて、Glue Data CatalogとS3 Tablesの違いを理解する
Introduction
I'm Aki, an AWS Community Builder (@jitepengin).
Most of the time, when working with Iceberg tables, we reach for PyIceberg or Spark. I'm no exception, and honestly there were parts of the PyIceberg configuration — rest.sigv4-enabled, rest.signing-name, warehouse — that I understood only vaguely.
Iceberg defines a standard called the Iceberg REST Catalog Open API specification, and AWS implements it through two separate endpoints:
