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DatabricksGordon Wang, Steve Costa, Ankit MishraAnnouncement
Announcing the Public Preview of Custom URLs
Summary
Databricks has announced the public preview of Custom URLs, giving each account a single branded domain that serves its workspaces. Previously, workspace-specific URLs made navigation, sharing, bookmarking, and account-wide features more cumbersome, while users had to log in repeatedly when switching workspaces. Custom URLs use a shared account session to verify access and create workspace sessions seamlessly, while preserving authorization boundaries and keeping existing per-workspace URLs functional. The feature provides a unified Genie entry point, cross-workspace Unity Catalog lineage, and an account-level URL that remains stable during disaster-recovery failover, including for downstream tools using existing connection strings. Activation requires Unified Login; Frontend Private Link workspaces fall back to per-workspace URLs, and account admins can claim a URL, enable it, and optionally turn on automatic redirects.
Context
Workspace-specific Databricks URLs were difficult to memorize, share, and brand. As customers added more workspaces, users faced repeated logins when switching between them, accumulating bookmarks, and lacking an obvious account-wide home for features such as Genie.
Approach / What changed
Custom URLs provide one branded, account-level domain for all workspaces. A shared account session verifies access and creates workspace sessions as users move between them, while existing authorization boundaries and per-workspace URLs remain intact. Account admins can claim a URL, enable it, and optionally activate automatic redirects from legacy workspace URLs.
Takeaways
Users can move between accessible workspaces without repeated logins because Custom URLs verify access and create new sessions seamlessly while preserving authorization boundaries.
The account-wide Custom URL provides a unified Genie experience and a cross-workspace Unity Catalog lineage view spanning upstream and downstream assets.
Custom URLs require Unified Login; workspaces with Frontend Private Link enabled fall back to per-workspace URLs, while account-level Frontend Private Link is planned for Beta.
Source and freshness
- Source
- databricks.com
- Published
- Added to Yomu
- Last updated
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