# AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

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Author: Daniel Abib

Published: 2026-08-31T14:45:25Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [AWS News Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aws-news-blog.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Amazon Redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-redshift.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>)

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## AI overview

AWS weekly roundup covering the planned acquisition of DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, alongside Amazon ECS recovery updates and AWS Lambda preview runtimes for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15.

## Source excerpt

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation [...]