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01 Sep 2026, 6:00 PM	The Register	7.5	AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate AWS acquired DuckLabs, the team behind the open-source embedded OLAP database DuckDB, though the DuckDB IP remains open source. AWS VP Andy Warfield frames DuckDB as 'connective tissue' and an 'SDK for data' — developers can run small queries locally in-process and federate larger queries to Redshift, RDS, BigQuery, or Microsoft Fabric via SQL 'attach' and 'connect' verbs. Why: If you build analytics or data pipelines, DuckDB's cross-engine federation means you can prototype locally on small datasets and graduate to Redshift or BigQuery without rewriting query logic — evaluate DuckDB as a lightweight analytics layer in your app rather than standing up a separate DBMS server, especially now that AWS will steer its roadmap. duckdb aws databases data-federation olap

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01 Sep 2026, 6:00 PM

The Register

7.5

AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate

AWS acquired DuckLabs, the team behind the open-source embedded OLAP database DuckDB, though the DuckDB IP remains open source. AWS VP Andy Warfield frames DuckDB as 'connective tissue' and an 'SDK for data' — developers can run small queries locally in-process and federate larger queries to Redshift, RDS, BigQuery, or Microsoft Fabric via SQL 'attach' and 'connect' verbs.

Why: If you build analytics or data pipelines, DuckDB's cross-engine federation means you can prototype locally on small datasets and graduate to Redshift or BigQuery without rewriting query logic — evaluate DuckDB as a lightweight analytics layer in your app rather than standing up a separate DBMS server, especially now that AWS will steer its roadmap.