Introducing Databricks Managed Disaster Recovery

When a region goes down, every minute counts. Until now, achieving disaster recovery on a lakehouse meant stitching together brittle, DIY replication pipelines metadata, data, and workspace assets. Today, we're changing that. Managed Disaster Recovery brings turnkey, cross-region resilience to the Databricks Lakehouse. 

In this session, we'll introduce for the first time Databricks' Managed Disaster Recovery offering. We'll cover:
  - The architecture: how UC replication, data replication, and workspace asset replication work together under one unified API to deliver 15-minute RPO and RTO targets
  - What gets replicated — and what we learned building DR for managed tables, Managed Iceberg, and workspace assets at scale
  - Live demo: we'll create a failover group, watch replication in action, trigger a forced failover, and show applications seamlessly reconnecting through Stable URLs — all in real time

Whether you're in financial services with strict RTO mandates, running mission-critical ML pipelines, or simply tired of the "what's our DR plan?" question having no good answer, this session will show you how to go from unprotected to fully resilient in minutes — not months.