BigLake release notes

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March 17, 2026

Feature

BigLake metastore offers cross-region replication and disaster recovery (Preview) to improve your catalog's availability and resilience

This feature improves your catalog's availability and resilience by ensuring continuous access, protecting against regional outages, preventing data loss, and enabling failover for Apache Iceberg tables that use an Iceberg REST catalog. For more information, see see About cross-region replication and disaster recovery.