Cost Optimization Strategies for Databricks Workloads

Introduction Databricks has become a core platform for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. It brings flexibility and scalability, but it also introduces a challenge that many teams underestimate at the start. Costs can rise quickly if workloads are not managed carefully. Many organizations notice that their cloud bills increase without a clear explanation. Clusters run longer than expected, inefficient queries consume unnecessary resources, and data storage grows unchecked. The re