None of the new features matters if your platform goes down when a region or cloud has an outage. Cross-region and cross-cloud recovery is non-negotiable. This is key for any platform hosting applications, as it enables the components mentioned above to be 100% available.

https://databrickster.medium.com/my-favorite-announcements-from-the-data-ai-summit-2026-317fc68d4e75

https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/data-ai-summit-2026-announcements