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AWS Acquires DuckLabs, Developer of DuckDB, and Launches Agentic Resource Discovery

·2026.08.31 23:45

Key point

AWS has acquired DuckLabs, the developer of DuckDB, and released the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard.

Details

AWS has finalized the acquisition of DuckLabs, the developer of DuckDB. DuckDB is an in-process analytical database that processes files such as Parquet and CSV directly via SQL, maintaining its open-source status through an MIT license and an independent foundation. AWS plans to integrate DuckDB's fast query performance with enterprise services such as Amazon S3, Redshift, and Athena.

DuckDB aligns well with how AI agents explore data, and co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the technical direction. Additionally, AWS has released Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification for the discovery of agents, tools, and MCP servers.

Key Technical Updates

  • Amazon ECS: Automatically detects and recovers from agent disconnections, providing AGENT_CONNECTIVITY health events.
  • AWS Lambda: Introduces public preview runtimes for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 to support compatibility testing before GA.
  • AWS IoT Core: Adds InfluxDB rule actions to route time-series data from IoT devices to InfluxDB without code.
  • Amazon GameLift Servers: Enables Layer 3/4 DDoS protection based on AWS Shield Standard by default.
  • Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: Expands support for Ray workloads to provide cluster management, observability, and inference acceleration.
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