Azure Databricks

Generally Available: Azure Databricks Lakebase in four additional regions

Lakebase is now generally available in four additional Azure regions: North Central US, France Central, Germany West Central, and East Asia. This expansion provides customers with additional deployment options and broader regional availability for Lakebase workloads.

Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026

Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS, a Databricks-managed runtime available on Azure Databricks, reached end of support on March 18, 2025 and will reach end of life on November 1, 2026.

Announcing: Azure Databricks Genie One and Genie Agents Free Usage extended through January 31, 2027

Free usage of Genie One and Genie Agents in Azure Databricks is now extended through January 31, 2027, from the previous end date of July 31, 2026. Budget controls do not apply to these products during the promotional period.

Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks

The SharePoint connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available. Organizations can use Lakeflow Connect to ingest files from SharePoint into Azure Databricks, helping unify enterprise content with data and AI workflows on Azure.

Generally Available: Unity AI Gateway on Azure Databricks

Unity AI Gateway is now generally available on Azure Databricks. Unity AI Gateway provides centralized governance for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services, helping organizations monitor usage, manage costs, apply guardrails, and enforce access controls across AI workloads.…

Generally Available: Claude Opus 5 on Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 5 through AI Model Serving. Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's latest model for advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work.

Generally Available: Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in UK West

Starting July 13th, 2026, customers can use Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in the UK West region to simplify analytics workloads while benefiting from instant compute, automated scaling, and reduced infrastructure management.

Generally Available: Open AI GPT-5.6 on Azure Databricks

Open AI GPT-5.6 is now available on Azure Databricks. You can use GPT 5.6 (purchased on Microsoft Foundry) via Model Serving Endpoint in Azure Databricks.

Generally available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 on Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet's cost efficiency and speed.

Public Preview: Azure Databricks natively storing data in Microsoft OneLake

Azure Databricks can now natively write managed Delta tables to Microsoft OneLake. This capability enables customers to use OneLake as a unified storage layer for Azure Databricks workloads without managing separate storage accounts.

Generally Available: Azure Databricks native read access to Microsoft OneLake

Azure Databricks now supports native read access to data stored in Microsoft OneLake through Unity Catalog. This capability is generally available.

Public Preview: Azure Databricks Lakebase branching with GitHub Copilot agent mode

Developers in Azure Databricks can now create a copy-on-write branch of their Lakebase production database with a single command, connect GitHub Copilot agent mode to the branch endpoint, and debug AI apps and agents against real production data without ever touching production.…

Public Preview: Azure Databricks workspace-wide Genie MCP for Microsoft Copilot Studio

A new workspace-wide Genie MCP endpoint enables any Microsoft Copilot Studio agent to query natural-language questions across an entire Azure Databricks workspace through a single endpoint.

Generally available: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 on Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving.

Public Preview: Azure Databricks OneLake Catalog Federation

You can now enable OneLake catalog federation in Azure Databricks to query Microsoft Fabric OneLake data without copying or moving it.

Generally Available: Lakeflow Connect Free Tier now available in Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks now offers a Lakeflow Connect Free Tier that gives each workspace 100 free DBUs per workspace per day for ingestion from SaaS applications and databases.

Generally Available: Azure Databricks Lakebase

Today we’re announcing the General Availability of Azure Databricks Lakebase, a managed PostgreSQL environment with next generation separation of storage and compute for OLTP, providing instant availability, instant clones, and scale-to-zero.

Generally Available: Azure Databricks update workspace network configuration

Azure Databricks workspaces have two network configurations – Azure Databricks-managed VNet and VNet Injection. The ability to update the Network Configuration of your workspace is now generally available.

Generally Available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available on Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier-level performance on complex coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work including reasoning at a lower price point.

Generally Available: Azure Databricks Supervisor Agent

Introducing Supervisor Agent, now Generally Available in Azure Databricks. Supervisor Agent is part of the Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Platform.