What is Dremio Cloud?
Dremio Cloud is a fully managed agentic data lakehouse platform that unifies data across lakes, warehouses, and databases, automating platform and data operations through autonomous workflows.
Unlike traditional systems that require constant tuning and manual operations, Dremio Cloud provides a self-managing environment where AI agents, applications, and users access consistent, governed data through a unified catalog and semantic layer.
Core Capabilities
AI agent - Dremio Cloud includes a native AI agent integrated with the catalog and governance controls. The agent can discover datasets, generate queries, and automate routine analytics tasks while operating within enterprise security and governance.
AI Semantic Layer - The semantic layer provides shared definitions for business entities, metrics, and relationships. This ensures agents and analysts use consistent context, reducing ambiguity, preventing hallucinations, and improving accuracy in both AI-generated and human-authored queries. Definitions are stored with the data and enforced across tools and users.
Unified Data Access - Dremio Cloud provides live access to data across lakes, warehouses, and databases without ETL pipelines or copies. Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data can be queried together in real time. Built-in AI functions process formats such as PDFs and images directly in SQL workflows. Dremio's Open Catalog is built on Apache Polaris and co-created by Dremio, providing interoperability with engines like Spark and Trino, integration with catalogs such as AWS Glue and Unity Catalog, and fine-grained role-based access controls.
Autonomous Management - The platform delivers consistent sub-second performance without manual tuning. Features such as Autonomous Reflections act as an intelligent cache that adapts to workload patterns, while Iceberg clustering and automatic table optimization continuously organize data to address skew and small files. These optimizations happen transparently with no changes to applications or hand-tuning required.
Why It Matters
Dremio Cloud gives users and AI agents a unified, governed foundation for analytics and decision-making. The AI Semantic Layer ensures consistent business context, while Autonomous Management capabilities deliver fast, reliable performance across all data. Built on open standards (Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, and Apache Arrow), Dremio avoids lock-in while supporting the scale, speed, and trust required for agentic workloads.