# DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics

DevFeed: [DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/duckdb-and-the-changing-physics-of-analytics-12435.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/duckdb-and-the-changing-physics-of-analytics.html>)

Author: werner@allthingsdistributed.com (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Published: 2026-08-26T14:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [All Things Distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/all-things-distributed.md>)

Topics: [DuckDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/duckdb.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [duckdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/duckdb.md>), [posts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/posts.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how changing relative costs for compute, memory, and networking are enabling more data processing to remain within applications. It presents DuckDB as a database supporting this shift and discusses its relationship to AWS data offerings, including S3 Files, S3 Tables, and S3 Vectors, alongside DuckLabs joining AWS.

## Source excerpt

In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we've been doing in S3 (e.g., S3 Files, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors). And most importantly, why DuckLabs, the team behind DuckDB, is joining AWS