Authorized Workspaces is a new feature in Astro by Astronomer that enhances the existing Workspace functionality by allowing users to authorize specific workspaces to designated clusters within their data planes, thereby isolating teams or projects and providing greater control over Astro deployments. This feature is particularly useful for separating production from non-production environments, ensuring sensitive deployments are accessible only to specific users, and preventing untested code from running on production resources. It facilitates a decentralized approach, allowing teams to access only the necessary resources to create and maintain data products, while ensuring compliance with security standards and best practices. Authorized Workspaces streamline the management and scaling of Astro resources and promote the safe implementation of federated data layers, making it easier to integrate Astro’s orchestration capabilities into various cloud-native architectures. The feature also simplifies the process of authorizing workspaces through the Astro UI, offering a straightforward wizard to manage cluster authorizations for existing and new workspaces.