When will Redshift be compatible with Apache Iceberg format?

At this time, there is no official announcement from AWS or the Amazon Redshift team regarding compatibility with the Apache Iceberg format. However, AWS is constantly updating its services to add new features and improve compatibility with other tools and technologies, so it is possible that Redshift may support Iceberg in the future. It's always a good idea to keep an eye on the official AWS documentation and announcements for updates on this topic.

Iceberg via Spectrum is in preview as of today:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-redshift-querying-apache-iceberg-tables/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/querying-iceberg.html

This is also a feature which is make or break for our solution to use redshift, would be amazing if iceberg support is in the near future

Will add a +1 to this. We're ingesting data into our data lake using Fivetran. It satisfies our external vendor's use case, because that's how they consume our data, but our internal data analysts are forced to use Athena to query data. This isn't ideal, because all of our other data is in Redshift, so they are having to manually export the iceberg data.

Plus 1 again. All of the other major warehouse solutions (BigQuery, Snowflake namely) already support Iceberg tables. Redshift needs to accelerate their product offering to remain competitive