OneLake Cross-Region Mirroring

[bluepond]

Enabling automatic or scheduled mirroring of OneLake data across Azure regions would significantly enhance the platform's suitability for global enterprise scenarios.

Key benefits of this capability include:

• Improved resilience through cross-region redundancy for disaster recovery and high availability
• Reduced latency by allowing data access from geographically closer regions
• Simplified data operations, eliminating the need for manual synchronization via Dataflow Gen2 or ADF pipelines
• Potential cost optimization, especially if replication avoids outbound data transfer charges

Recommended configuration options:

• Selecting destination regions for mirroring
• Choosing between read-only and read/write replicas
• Defining sync intervals (e.g., near real-time, hourly, daily)

This feature would align OneLake with enterprise expectations for multi-region data availability and performance.

[SimonKAKI]

This idea is must item of enterprise use case. After coming this future, each global company can be use nearest region avoid latency effect. I would like to addition of requirement for privilege copy also. When realized this function, I will fully move over from Snowflake.