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Enterprise-Grade Apache Iceberg Backup and Recovery on AWS

Protect Apache Iceberg tables managed by AWS Glue and Amazon S3 Tables with Iceberg-aware, immutable backup and recovery. 

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Your Data Lake isn’t Just Growing—It’s Becoming Harder to Recover

Protect petabyte-scale datasets automatically

Serverless architecture scales without customer-managed backup infrastructure

What happens when your pipeline corrupts data?

ETL, analytics, and AI workflows can silently introduce errors

Recover Iceberg tables to a known-good state

Restore table data, metadata, and snapshot lineage together

What Is Apache Iceberg?

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large-scale analytics that brings database-like capabilities to data stored in object storage such as Amazon S3. 

Why Apache Iceberg Requires Dedicated Protection

Apache Iceberg often powers business-critical analytics, AI, and data lakehouse workloads.

Key Factors

Iceberg tables require metadata, snapshots, manifests, and lineage. 
Native snapshots lack long-term retention, compliance, and ransomware resilience. 
Generic S3 backups require manual Iceberg table reconstruction.

Resulting Operational Impact

Increased recovery complexity for analytics and AI workloads.
Challenges meeting long-term retention and governance requirements.
Greater operational risk during data loss, corruption, or ransomware events.

How Clumio Supports Apache Iceberg Backup and Recovery

Iceberg-Aware Backup and Recovery

Protects Iceberg tables with transactionally consistent backups and restores them without the need for manual metadata reconstruction.

Immutable, Air-Gapped Resilience

Stores Iceberg backups in immutable, isolated storage, helping reduce the impact of ransomware, compromise, and accidental deletion.

Flexible Recovery Across Time and Place

Supports point-in-time and snapshot restores for Iceberg tables while enabling flexible cross-environment recovery to minimize analytics downtime.

Unlimited Snapshot Retention

Maintains unlimited Iceberg snapshots to support long-term retention, audits, and compliance without affecting live lakehouse performance.

Business Outcomes

Helps organizations recover faster from ransomware, corruption, and accidental data loss, reduce disruption to analytics, reporting, and AI workloads, gain greater visibility into protected Iceberg tables and recovery points, and lower the operational overhead of protecting large-scale data lakes.

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Native Apache Iceberg vs Cloud-Native Protection

	Native Protection	Cloud-Native Protection
Stores backups in immutable, isolated environments	No	Yes
Centralizes recovery workflows across AWS workloads	No	Yes
Designed to support cloud-scale database recovery scenarios	No	Yes

Clumio’s Protection Capabilities for Apache Iceberg

Event-driven, incremental backup for Apache Iceberg tables and underlying S3 data 

Immutable, air-gapped backup storage

Iceberg-aware recovery that preserves table metadata, manifests, and snapshot lineage

Point-in-time recovery and in-place rollback with Backtrack

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Clumio protect Apache Iceberg data on AWS?

Clumio protects Apache Iceberg tables with immutable, air-gapped backups and Iceberg-aware recovery workflows. This helps organizations recover from incidents such as ransomware, accidental deletion, data corruption, and operational failures without manual reconstruction of table metadata.

How is Apache Iceberg backup different from traditional data lake backup?

Apache Iceberg uses an open table format with frequent metadata updates and snapshot-based commits, which require protection that understands table structure and lineage. Clumio is designed to capture and restore Iceberg metadata, manifests, and snapshots, rather than treating data as generic files.

Can Clumio restore Apache Iceberg tables quickly after an incident?

Clumio supports snapshot-level and point-in-time recovery for Iceberg tables, along with cross-account and cross-region restore options. This allows teams to recover analytics and AI workloads without managing recovery infrastructure.

Can Clumio migrate Apache Iceberg tables to Amazon S3 Tables?

Yes. Clumio can restore Iceberg tables managed in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as Amazon S3 Tables, supporting modernization and migration workflows while preserving table history. For more information, see the blog Simplifying Your Migration to Amazon S3 Tables with Clumio. 

Does Clumio support long-term retention for Apache Iceberg snapshots?

Yes. Clumio supports unlimited Iceberg snapshot retention, enabling long-term history for compliance, audits, and investigations without impacting live lakehouse performance. 