![]() ![]() Only after talking to MSFT support I got to know it also includes storage. Since in the bill you will mostly see the major amount is charged for storage and not for VMs. It does not say it also includes storage. But the documentation does not specifically say what the Virtual Machines include from Cost Perspective. I now understand that the Databricks pricing model includes 2 components - 1) DBU and 2) Virtual Machines. I believe including these aspects to MSFT documentation will help earn trust of potential customers. I am saying this not just for me, but for other potential customers trying out Azure products, since I searched online and found that my experience with Azure trial is not unique, and such hardships have been faced by some other Azure "trial" users as well. This lack of clarity does not seem fair, rather a bit unethical and misleading. The Azure documentation itself should provide clarity on (directly or referring other links): what this Databricks "Free trial" entails, high-level explanation on how the services will be charged for the "Free trial" of Azure Databricks, what are the expected charges when creating each resource and mention that one may expect a bill of upwards $1000 if one follows the fully instructed exercises in the MSFT documentation to the letter. Generally a customer (especially considering Microsoft's general goodwill in the Seattle area) will not second-guess a documentation that directly comes from Microsoft, and anticipate financial hardship from following direct instructions in Microsoft documentation. However, Azure documentation for Databricks is asking a new-comer to Azure to take another free trial of "Azure Databricks Premium - 14 days Free DBUs", remove restrictions in 30 day Azure free trial, and change the subscription to pay-as-you-go removing the spending limits without explaining the consequences/approximate charges. There are safeguards in the 30 day trial to not charge customers through spending limits. I enrolled for the Azure trial since I was relatively new to the Azure ecosystem, and as a potential customer of its services - which is also expected when someone is enrolling into a trial product. ![]() She completely disregarded the fact that all the resource consumption she is seeing in the usage report are from Azure databricks free trial of 14-days. I have also created a support ticket but the response from the support person is not helpful. I feel the credits for the databricks trial period was not applied to my bill for the month of June. Hence did not expect to be charged for the databricks usage within the trial period. I followed every instruction from the aforementioned Microsoft documentation to the letter. It also shows the peak databricks cost was accrued between June 12 and June 20 which was still within the trial period. I confirmed from cost and event analysis that databricks resources were created on June 6 and got all deleted by June 20. ![]() When the trial is over you can convert the workspace to Premium but then you will be charged for your usage."įollowing this instruction I created the databricks workspace on June 6 and the trial ended on June 20. The workspace will suspend automatically after 14 days. You must select this option when creating your workspace or you will be charged. As mentioned in this documentation I took microsoft azure databricks free trial subscription for 14 days as stated in the above page : "Pricing Tier: Trial (Premium - 14 days Free DBUs). I followed microsoft documentation to learn about databricks as in this section: "Create an Azure Databricks workspace and cluster" from this page: " ". I received a $1,096.40 bill for the month of June, 2020 from Microsoft yesterday.Īs I did cost and event analysis from the Azure portal I found I have been charged for azure databricks trial. ![]()
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