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Databricks Makes Lakebase Generally Available on AWS

The launch delivers a managed Postgres service built to decouple compute from storage for operational workloads on the Databricks platform.

Overview

  • Lakebase is now live for production use in select AWS regions, with access in beta on Azure, planned expansion to Azure GA in the coming months and Google Cloud later this year, and compliance certifications on the near-term roadmap.
  • The service offers serverless autoscaling with scale-to-zero to cut idle costs and handle traffic spikes, plus instant zero-copy branching and point-in-time recovery for safer development and rapid restore.
  • Postgres 17 is supported, including pgvector for AI search, with continued support for Postgres 16, unified governance through Unity Catalog, and increased storage capacity up to 8TB per instance.
  • Databricks says adoption since the June 2025 launch has grown faster than its data warehousing product, with thousands of companies running production workloads on Lakebase.
  • Customer case studies cite real-time applications and faster delivery, with Hafnia, Warner Music Group, and easyJet reporting modernization gains and consolidation of legacy systems.