renamed GA
Unity AI Gateway
Unity AI Gateway was renamed - Databricks now calls it Unity Gateway, as of September 2026.
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Databricks' governance solution for enterprise AI: a central control plane over model serving endpoints and AI traffic that sets permissions, rate limits, traffic routing, payload logging, and safety guardrails across the models, agents, and tools an organization uses.
- It bolts governance onto model serving without touching the model: flip it on and every request through an endpoint gets rate-limited, guardrailed, and logged to an inference table - and if an external model fails, it can fall back to another one on the same endpoint.
- At Data + AI Summit 2026 it stretched past models to govern agents and tools too, launching Contextual Service Policies and a managed 'Omnigent' runtime - both in Beta.
- It was declared generally available on August 4, 2026 with parts of itself openly still in Beta - the same announcement notes that service policies and agent services have not caught up.
- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- AI Gateway
- Verified
- 2026-09-06
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks Blog: Unity AI Gateway at DAIS 2026
- Official Databricks release notes: AI Gateway GA (June 2025)
- Official Databricks release notes: the August 4, 2026 GA announcement, since reworded to Unity Gateway
- Official Databricks Blog: Unity AI Gateway is Generally Available (August 4, 2026)