# Best practices for optimizing Iceberg workloads
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Iceberg is a table format that's designed to simplify data lake management and enhance workload performance. Different use cases might prioritize different aspects such as cost, read performance, write performance, or data retention, so Iceberg offers configuration options to manage these trade-offs. This section provides insights for optimizing and fine-tuning your Iceberg workloads to meet your requirements.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Prescriptive Guidance. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query prescriptive-guidance` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).