The Databricks Account Console is the central, account-level management portal for Databricks — it’s where you control everything that spans multiple workspaces.
Think of it as the “control tower” for your Databricks environment.
Purpose
It sits above individual workspaces and lets you:
- Manage users, service principals, and groups across all workspaces.
- Create, configure, and delete workspaces in different regions or cloud accounts.
- Set up Unity Catalog metastores for centralized governance.
- Configure billing and subscription settings.
- Manage cloud resources linkage (e.g., AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, GCP projects).
What You Do in the Account Console
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| User & Group Management | Add/remove users, assign groups, set account roles. |
| Workspace Management | Create new workspaces, set region, choose cloud provider. |
| Unity Catalog Setup | Create metastores, assign to workspaces, manage governance at account scope. |
| Billing | View/modify payment settings, invoices, usage reports. |
| Cloud Integration | Link AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts for workspace creation. |
| SSO & Identity | Configure account-level SSO and SCIM provisioning. |
How It Differs from a Workspace
- Account Console: Global, account-wide settings (affects all workspaces).
- Workspace: A development & compute environment for running notebooks, jobs, SQL, etc.
Access URLs
If you’d like, I can create a diagram showing the relationship between the Account Console, workspaces, clusters, and notebooks so you can see the hierarchy visually. Would you like me to make that?
For Azure: https://accounts.azuredatabricks.net/
- This is the Azure Databricks Account Console. It is accessed by account administrators to manage the overall Databricks account on Azure.
- Key functions available here include:
- Managing Unity Catalog metastores
- User and group management
- Account-level settings (feature enablement, email preferences, language settings, account naming)
- Only users with the Account Admin role (usually assigned via a Microsoft Entra ID Global Administrator) have full access. Others may see only workspace lists.
- The portal complements the Azure Portal, which is used for creating workspaces and managing subscriptions.
For AWS & GCP: https://accounts.cloud.databricks.com/
- This is the Databricks Account Console for AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It provides account-level management for Databricks accounts running on these cloud providers.
- Similar core functions as Azure:
- Manage workspaces and user identities
- Set up account-level configurations and nicknames
- Access or delegate account admin privileges
- Enable features like Unity Catalog and Previews
- The console is tailored for multi-cloud deployments, handling AWS and GCP platform specifics while offering a standardized way to manage Databricks accounts, users, and workspaces across these providers.
In short:
- accounts.azuredatabricks.net: For managing Databricks accounts on Azure.
- accounts.cloud.databricks.com: For managing Databricks accounts on AWS and GCP.
These consoles are the central hubs for account administrators to oversee security, user provisioning, feature enablement, and cross-workspace settings on their respective cloud platforms.