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AWS Clean Rooms Adds Cross-Region Data Collaboration

🌐 AWS Clean Rooms now supports cross-region collaboration, letting organizations analyze partner data stored in different AWS and Snowflake Regions without copying or sharing underlying datasets. Collaboration creators can specify allowed result regions to help meet data residency and sovereignty requirements. This reduces integration work—no new pipelines or replication—and enables faster, secure joint analyses across advertising, investment, and R&D use cases.

FabCon Vienna: Enterprise-ready Microsoft Fabric updates

📢 At FabCon Vienna, Microsoft unveiled a broad set of Microsoft Fabric enhancements to accelerate data-rich agents and enterprise adoption. Key updates include expanded OneLake shortcuts and mirroring (preview for Oracle and BigQuery), a preview Graph database and Maps for geospatial context, developer tooling (MCP, Extensibility Toolkit, CI/CD) and strengthened security controls like Azure Private Link and customer-managed keys. These features focus on zero-copy data access, governance, and operational scalability for mission-critical workloads.

Google Cloud and Partners Commit to Apache Iceberg

🔁 Google Cloud and an ecosystem of partners — including Confluent, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, and Snowflake — reaffirm support for the open table format Apache Iceberg to power modern lakehouse architectures. The post highlights Google innovations such as BigLake and a REST Catalog API that unify metadata and enable interoperability across engines like BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake. The collaboration aims to reduce data silos, enable time travel and pruning, and accelerate AI-ready analytics.