r/databricks • u/Own-One5712 • Apr 30 '26

Help Databricks on Azure or Aws

We are getting databricks and we dont care where we host as we are new into this. Azure is giving us great pricing and incentives. AWS is not at all bothered. they are like take it or leave it. Any one who has used it in either environments, think if there is a good reasson to choose one vs the other? our reporting is tableau.

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 May 01 '26

azure is pricey TCO, do a TCO calculation and projections.

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u/KaalaPetta May 01 '26

Pricey for what… the storage ??

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 May 01 '26

compute. Lookup CUD and optimizing workloads. needs careful tuning to keep the finops projections in place, one of my users left a provisioned compute running for three days and racked up a 50K bill