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Cut Your Databricks Bill in Half

A practical cost-optimization guide for data teams

In most environments, half the Databricks bill is waste: idle clusters, the wrong compute type, reprocessing and inefficient reads. This guide goes from the cost model to a 30-day plan of actions ordered by return — without rewriting your platform. (Content in Portuguese.)

What you get

  • 16 dense pages by a Databricks Certified Professional
  • A 30-day plan with actions ordered by payoff
  • Ready configs and queries (policies, OPTIMIZE, billing)
  • Cost checklist by area (compute, data, SQL, governance)

Contents

  1. 1The cost model: DBUs + VMs
  2. 2The biggest culprit: idle clusters and auto-termination
  3. 3Job vs. all-purpose compute: the 30%+ switch
  4. 4Photon, instances, spot and serverless — when they pay off
  5. 5Less I/O: OPTIMIZE, clustering and incremental
  6. 6Cost governance and the 30-day plan