The news that AWS bought DuckLabs,a small company built around DuckDB,isn’t just a corporate shuffle. It’s the moment a quiet open-source project, built by a handful of researchers in Amsterdam, suddenly becomes part of the infrastructure that powers half the internet. No, DuckDB itself isn’t going anywhere,it’s still the in-process analytical database that developers reach for when they need speed without the weight of a full-blown data warehouse. But now it has a backer with the money, reach, and muscle memory to push it into places we’ve only half-imagined. What’s strange is how little this changes on the surface. The DuckLabs team still operates out of the same office in Amsterdam. The code stays open source. The documentation still warns you that DuckDB might explode if you feed it a malformed query. So why does this matter? Because AWS doesn’t just throw money at things,they turn them into products, and products have roadmaps, pricing, and support contracts. The question ...