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- Aug 26, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
AWS Agrees to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
- Amazon signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB; financial terms were not disclosed.[1][6]
- Amazon said it expected the transaction to close shortly, subject to customary closing conditions.[1] DuckLabs said it would join AWS effective September 1, and later updated its announcement to say the process concluded successfully on August 31, 2026.[4]
- Amazon is not acquiring the DuckDB open-source project: DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack and the rest of the "Duck Stack" remain free and open source under the MIT license, stewarded by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation.[1][3]
- DuckDB creators and DuckLabs co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt continue leading the team and the project's technical direction, and the team stays in Amsterdam.[1][3]
- DuckLabs was founded a little more than five years ago, stayed bootstrapped and owned by its founders and team, and grew to more than 30 employees; it puts DuckDB adoption at more than three million downloads a day.[3]
- Amazon says the two companies have worked together since 2024[1]; the collaboration included DuckDB support for Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.[3]
- AWS plans to combine DuckDB's speed on everyday queries of a terabyte or less with S3 and its analytics services such as Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue and SageMaker; Amazon Quick already runs DuckDB against S3 Tables, processing over 2.5 billion queries and cutting average query latency by 30%.[5]
- DuckLabs plans to add a technical advisory board to the DuckDB Foundation and to let DuckDB run extensions signed by other developers and organisations.[3][4]
- MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani expects Amazon to launch DuckDB as a service, and GeekWire notes the shift to querying open formats in cloud storage puts pressure on Snowflake and Databricks.[6]
- Analysts told InfoWorld DuckDB is more likely to become an embedded query engine inside AWS's existing analytics services than a standalone "Amazon DuckDB" product.[2]
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- [1]90%aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/aws-ducklabsaboutamazon.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Aug 26, 2026 ✓· 18% of score
The Amazon[5] News post (article:published_time 2026-08-26) says "Amazon has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs[3][4]", and DuckLabs' own release dated 2026-08-26 says it "today announced that it will become part of Amazon Web Services".
- [2]80%AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?infoworld.com· Published Aug 27, 2026· 16% of score
Trade-press analysis with analyst views on how AWS will use DuckDB (an embedded query engine rather than a standalone product) and what the deal means for developers.[1]
- [3]92%DuckLabs to Join Amazon Web Services, Projects to Remain Open Sourceducklabs.com· Published Aug 26, 2026· 16% of score
The acquired company's own press release (Amsterdam, same day): expected effective early September 2026, the S3 Tables / SageMaker Lakehouse collaboration, 30+ staff, three million daily downloads and the Foundation advisory board plan.[1]
- [4]90%DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Sourceducklabs.com· Published Aug 26, 2026· 16% of score
Founders' blog post (Raasveldt and Mühleisen): joining effective September 1, with an update that "The process concluded successfully on Aug 31, 2026" - the only fetched page confirming the close.[1]
- [5]88%AWS and DuckLabs: Building the future of analytics togetheraws.amazon.com· Published Aug 26, 2026· 16% of score
AWS's own blog on the deal: DuckDB's CWI origins, the plan to pair it with S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue and SageMaker, and Amazon Quick's DuckDB figures (2.5B queries, 30% lower latency).
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