Amazon acquires DuckLabs and integrates DuckDB into Aurora PostgreSQL

Amazon has acquired Amsterdam-based DuckLabs, the company behind the DuckDB analytical database. Creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will keep leading the team and the open-source project at AWS, with DuckDB and the Duck Stack staying free under the MIT licence. Aurora PostgreSQL is the first service to ship a DuckDB-powered feature, letting a single query join live data with Parquet and Iceberg files in S3 without ETL.

• DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack remain free under MIT, supervised by the DuckDB Foundation
• The Aurora feature joins transactional data with Parquet and Iceberg in S3 in one query
• Available in all commercial regions and GovCloud at no additional charge
• AWS and DuckLabs collaborated for about two years on S3 Tables, Lambda and ATTACH