AWS and DuckLabs have been working together since 2024.
Amazon is acquiring Amsterdam-based DuckLabs, the company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB.
Details of the transaction were not disclosed, however, DuckDB is not included in the acquisition and will remain free and open source under the independent nonprofit that oversees the project, the company clarified.
The company’s team of more than 30 employees are set to join Amazon Web Services (AWS), while co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt are expected to continue leading the team and DuckDB’s technical direction, alongside working on data lakehouse DuckLake and the Quack protocol.
“For almost a decade, the DuckDB team has worked with the idea of building a tool that lets people work with data, with confidence. I find that sentiment – not just making data easy to work with, but actively empowering people to ask questions, build, and really innovate with data – is exactly in line with how AWS and our customers think about data,” said Andy Warfield, Amazon’s vice-president.
“We’ve been working closely with the DuckLabs team for the past two years, and I am so excited at the opportunity to work with them even more closely.”
Amazon’s cloud business, AWS, has been working with DuckLabs since 2024. The 2021-founded start-up said that the acquisition gives it access to resources to help widen its reach to developers and pursue ideas on a much larger scale.
“Together, we plan to use DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack to help power a new generation of data services. Our ambition is to reach people who may eventually depend on the Duck Stack every day, whether they interact with it directly or encounter it quietly inside the products and services they use,” the founders said in a joint statement.
DuckLabs has refused venture capital funding since its launch, and has instead been owned fully by its founders and the development team.
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