【文章标题】：AWS Acquires DuckDB 【文章标题】：AWS 收购 DuckDB
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DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source DuckLabs 加入 AWS，项目将继续保持开源
Today, we’re announcing that DuckLabs will join Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is expected to be effective in early September. 今天，我们宣布 DuckLabs 将加入亚马逊云科技（AWS），该交易预计将于 9 月初生效。
Our team will remain together in Amsterdam, continuing our work on DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack, and the broader community. Joining AWS gives us the resources and reach to bring this technology to many more developers and organizations, and to pursue ideas at a scale that would have been difficult for us to reach alone. 我们的团队将继续留在阿姆斯特丹，持续推进 DuckDB、DuckLake、Quack 以及更广泛社区的相关工作。加入 AWS 为我们提供了丰富的资源和广阔的影响力，使我们能够将这项技术带给更多的开发者和组织，并以我们单打独斗难以企及的规模去实现各种构想。
Most importantly, the foundations of the project will remain firmly in place. DuckDB and the other open-source components of the “Duck Stack” will remain free and open source under the MIT license, with the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation continuing its stewardship of the projects. 最重要的是，项目的根基将依然稳固。DuckDB 及“Duck Stack”的其他开源组件将继续在 MIT 许可证下保持免费和开源，非营利组织 DuckDB 基金会将继续负责这些项目的管理工作。
This is a significant moment for all of us at DuckLabs. It marks the end of one chapter that we are immensely proud of, and the beginning of another that we believe can take DuckDB much further. 对 DuckLabs 的全体成员而言，这是一个重要时刻。它标志着我们无比自豪的一个篇章的结束，也开启了我们坚信能将 DuckDB 推向更高远未来的新篇章。
Our Journey to This Point 我们的发展历程
We founded DuckLabs a little over five years ago to give the team behind DuckDB a stable, long-term home. 五年多前，我们创立了 DuckLabs，旨在为 DuckDB 背后的团队提供一个稳定、长期的发展家园。
At the time, DuckDB was beginning to gain real momentum. The first commercial contracts to prioritize features were materializing, and venture capital firms were calling. We chose a different path: a bootstrapped company, fully owned by its founders and development team. 当时，DuckDB 正开始获得真正的发展势头。首批优先开发特定功能的商业合同正在落实，风险投资公司也纷至沓来。但我们选择了一条不同的道路：成立一家完全由创始人和开发团队持股的白手起家的公司。
That decision shaped DuckLabs in ways we value deeply. It gave us the freedom to build patiently, to put the technology first, and to grow without losing sight of why we started. From a small group gathered around an ambitious open-source project, we grew into a team of more than 30 people in Amsterdam, all while continuing to invest in DuckDB and the community taking shape around it. 这一决定以我们极为珍视的方式塑造了 DuckLabs。它赋予了我们耐心构建产品的自由，让我们能够将技术放在首位，并在成长过程中不忘初心。从围绕一个雄心勃勃的开源项目聚集起来的小团队，我们发展成为阿姆斯特丹一支 30 多人的队伍，同时持续投资于 DuckDB 及其周边逐渐成型的社区。
During those years, DuckDB traveled much further than we imagined when the project began. Today, we see more than one million downloads every day. Developers around the world use it to explore data, power products, teach new ideas, conduct research, and build systems we could never have anticipated ourselves. 在这些年里，DuckDB 的发展远超项目初创时我们的想象。如今，我们每天的下载量超过一百万次。全球各地的开发者使用它来探索数据、驱动产品、传授新理念、开展研究，并构建出我们自己都未曾预料到的系统。
Watching that happen has been one of the great privileges of our professional lives. But the limits of our existing model also became increasingly clear. As founders, we worried that DuckDB’s growth would eventually outpace our ability to support it. That our small company could become a bottleneck for the project, the team, and the people building businesses on top of it. 见证这一切的发生，是我们职业生涯中莫大的荣幸。但我们现有模式的局限性也日益凸显。作为创始人，我们担心 DuckDB 的增长最终会超出我们的支持能力，担心我们这家小公司会成为项目、团队以及基于此构建业务的用户的瓶颈。
We also worried that scaling DuckLabs into a much larger sales, support, and operations organization would pull our attention away from the technical work and open-source community that made DuckDB successful in the first place. 我们还担心，将 DuckLabs 扩展为一个规模庞大的销售、支持和运营组织，会分散我们的精力，使我们无法专注于最初让 DuckDB 取得成功的技术工作和开源社区。
Our partnerships work best with highly technical organizations – often companies with substantial database expertise of their own. Reaching a much broader group of users requires us to solve more complete and specialized problems, serve the needs of different industries, invest substantially more in infrastructure, and reach people who may never think to seek out an analytical database directly. 我们的合作伙伴关系在技术实力雄厚的组织中运作得最好——这些公司通常自身就具备深厚的数据库专业知识。而要触达更广泛的用户群体，我们需要解决更完整、更专业的问题，满足不同行业的需求，大幅增加基础设施投资，并触达那些可能从未想过直接寻找分析型数据库的用户。
We believe the DuckDB revolution can grow by another couple of orders of magnitude. To give it that opportunity, we realized we needed a different setup. 我们相信，DuckDB 带来的变革还能再扩大几个数量级。为了给它创造这样的机会，我们意识到需要一种不同的架构模式。
Why AWS 为何选择 AWS
DuckLabs and AWS have already been working closely together for more than a year. During that time, we came to understand how our teams collaborate, what each brings to the table, and what might become possible by combining DuckLabs’ technical expertise with AWS’s infrastructure, scale, and customer reach. DuckLabs 和 AWS 已经紧密合作了一年多。在此期间，我们深入了解了双方团队的协作方式、各自的优势，以及将 DuckLabs 的技术专长与 AWS 的基础设施、规模和客户覆盖面相结合后可能带来的无限可能。
That experience gave us confidence in taking this next step. 这段经历让我们对迈出下一步充满信心。
Together, we plan to use DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack to help power a new generation of data services. Our ambition is to reach people who may eventually depend on the Duck Stack every day, whether they interact with it directly or encounter it quietly inside the products and services they use. 我们计划共同利用 DuckDB、DuckLake 和 Quack 来助力驱动新一代数据服务。我们的愿景是触达那些最终可能每天都会依赖 Duck Stack 的用户，无论他们是直接与之交互，还是在其使用的产品和服务中悄然接触到它。
For the DuckLabs team, joining AWS creates the space to concentrate on the technical work we care about most while operating at a scale we could not easily achieve on our own. It allows us to think further ahead, be bolder, tackle harder problems, and bring the ideas behind DuckDB to many more people. 对 DuckLabs 团队而言，加入 AWS 为我们创造了专注核心技术的空间，让我们能够以单凭己力难以企及的规模开展工作。这使我们能够放眼更远的未来，更加大胆创新，攻克更艰难的难题，并将 DuckDB 背后的理念传递给更多人。
AWS has committed to supporting the continued development of DuckDB and its wider community for the long term. That commitment matters deeply to us. AWS 已承诺长期支持 DuckDB 及其更广泛社区的持续发展。这一承诺对我们意义重大。
Quote “DuckDB is an incredible open source project with an amazing community; it is broadly used and very much loved by S3 customers today. After about two years of working closely with Mark, Hannes and the whole team at DuckLabs I’m excited at the opportunity to help the project have an even broader impact. Also, and maybe a little selfishly, I’ve found the DuckLabs team to be one of the most technically deep, humble, and high-velocity teams that I’ve ever had a chance to work with and I’m delighted that we get to do a lot more of that.” 引用：“DuckDB 是一个了不起的开源项目，拥有令人惊叹的社区；如今它已被广泛使用，并深受 S3 客户的喜爱。在与 Mark、Hannes 以及 DuckLabs 整个团队紧密合作约两年后，我很高兴能有机会帮助该项目产生更广泛的影响。此外，或许也带点私心地说，我发现 DuckLabs 团队是我有幸合作过的技术最深厚、最谦逊且最高效的团队之一，我非常高兴未来我们能开展更多合作。”
– Andy Warfield (Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, —— Andy Warfield（杰出工程师兼副总裁，