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Monday, August 31, 2026

AWS Acquires DuckLabs: DuckDB Gets Enterprise Backing

AWS has acquired DuckLabs, the Amsterdam team behind DuckDB, the lightning-fast open source analytical database that queries Parquet, CSV, and JSON files directly. Good news for data engineers: DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation, so you keep your favorite in-process SQL powerhouse without vendor lock-in worries.

source: [aws/aws-blog]