The Amsterdam-based DuckLabs team will join AWS, but DuckDB itself will stay open-source and free under an independent foundation.
Amazon has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB. The deal is expected to close shortly, subject to customary conditions.
AWS and DuckLabs have worked together since 2024. The DuckLabs team brings deep database engineering expertise and a track record of building software that developers rely on. Together, the companies aim to make AWS analytics faster, simpler and more cost-effective for customers.
Once the deal closes, the DuckLabs team will join AWS while remaining based in Amsterdam. Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt, who created DuckDB and co-founded DuckLabs, will continue leading the team and the open-source project’s technical direction.
Amazon is not acquiring the DuckDB open-source project itself. It will remain free and open-source under the independent, nonprofit DuckDB Foundation and continue to be available under the MIT license, as it is today. Mühleisen and Raasveldt addressed the acquisition in a post on the DuckLabs website.
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“For almost a decade, the DuckDB team has worked with the idea of building a tool that lets people work with data, with confidence,” said Andy Warfield, an Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer. “That sentiment — not just making data easy to work with, but actively empowering people to ask questions, build, and innovate with data — is exactly in line with how AWS and our customers think about data. We’ve been working closely with the DuckLabs team for the past two years, and I’m excited for the opportunity to work with them even more closely.”
Amazon said it would share more details on integrating DuckLabs and AWS after the transaction closes. For now, the company said, nothing changes for DuckDB users.
