Custom URL makes the account the natural entry point for Databricks. One branded domain now serves every workspace in the account and users who log in once stay signed in as they move across them. Under the hood, as users switch workspaces, their access is automatically verified and new sessions are created seamlessly. The same authorization boundaries are enforced without requiring repeated logins. Existing per-workspace URLs keep working, so bookmarks and programmatic tools are unaffected.

Daily users moving across workspaces are no longer interrupted. A typical workflow in Databricks might span multiple workspaces (e.g., opening a notebook in dev, running a job in staging, and querying a table in prod). With a Custom URL, your login session follows you across your account, letting you seamlessly move between accessible workspaces without logging in every time.

Custom URL (mycompany.databricks.com/one) enables a unified Genie chat experience, making it easy for business users to access insights across the data estate to discover AI/BI dashboards, Apps, and Genie spaces. The login session covers the entire account, so users are only prompted to log in once.

With a Custom URL, Unity Catalog lineage reflects the full shape of your account, not just one workspace at a time. Users see a single lineage view that includes upstream and downstream assets across every workspace in your account. For example, a user can see which dashboards in other workspaces depend on a given table, or which jobs write to it. Because the lineage view uses the shared account session, this information is pulled seamlessly from every workspace without extra login prompts.