DuckLabs joins AWS as DuckDB hits 1 million downloads a day
DuckLabs, the small Amsterdam company behind the open-source database DuckDB, is about to become part of one of the biggest cloud providers in the world. In an announcement that surprised much of the data engineering community, DuckLabs joins AWS effective in early September 2026, closing a chapter that started with a handful of researchers and ending, for now, with a deal involving Amazon Web Services.
Key takeaways
- DuckLabs will join AWS effective early September 2026, while the team stays based in Amsterdam.
- DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack, and other Duck Stack components will remain open source under the MIT license.
- The nonprofit DuckDB Foundation continues stewarding the projects, now with plans for a technical advisory board.
- DuckDB currently logs more than one million downloads every day worldwide.
- AWS and DuckLabs had already been collaborating since early 2025 on integrations with Amazon S3 and SageMaker Lakehouse.
DuckLabs Joins AWS to Accelerate DuckDB Growth
The move brings the team that built DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack directly under Amazon’s cloud computing umbrella, giving the project access to infrastructure and distribution it could not have built on its own. According to the company’s announcement, the goal is straightforward: use AWS’s scale to bring the technology to far more developers and organizations than a bootstrapped startup could ever reach alone.
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