Databricks
Know What Databricks Really Costs
See DBUs and the AWS infrastructure underneath them in one dashboard, by workspace, cluster, owner, and tag. A daily report and spike alerts arrive in your inbox, Slack, or Teams. Early access is for teams running Databricks on AWS.
Companies who have eliminated cloud cost surprises and saved $1M+ annually by empowering their engineering teams to own their costs.
Problem
Your Databricks Bill Is Only Half The Story,
The Other Half Is Hiding In AWS
DBUs land on your Databricks invoice, while the infrastructure behind them lands on your AWS bill. Two bills, two owners, and no one sees the full cost.
DBUs and AWS infrastructure are billed separately (so no one sees the true cost)
Joining Databricks system tables with the AWS CUR means building and maintaining your own pipeline
Spikes go unnoticed until the bill arrives
Shared clusters and SQL warehouses can't be traced to a team
With CloudForecast, we can react the next day, so costs never get out of hand and help prevent those end-of-the-month surprises when the bill arrives.
Manager of Engineering and Infrastructure
DBUs and AWS Infrastructure on One Screen
CloudForecast joins your Databricks system tables with your AWS Cost and Usage Report using cluster tags. Each workspace and cluster shows its DBU charges next to the EC2 and other AWS costs it ran on.
Know Which Team Drove the Spend
Break the combined cost down by workspace, cluster, owner, and tag. Filter the whole dashboard to one team's tags, or compare a calm week with a spiky one to see what changed between them. Clusters and SQL warehouses show up by name, so nobody has to translate IDs in a spreadsheet.
Yesterday's Cost in Your Inbox, Slack, or Teams
Every morning, the people who own Databricks spend get yesterday's cost with DBUs and AWS side by side. When spend jumps, an alert names the workspace or cluster behind it while there's still time to act. Give each team a report scoped to its own tags, on the schedule it wants.
Early Access
See Your Full Databricks Cost Without Handing Over the Keys
Three read-only steps to your first Databricks cost report for Databricks on AWS.
1. Add a read-only service principal
Create it and run grants that give read-only access to your Databricks billing tables. We can't change your jobs, clusters or data.
2. Connect your AWS CUR
Same read-only access we use for AWS reports. It's how we add the EC2 under your clusters to your DBUs. Already a CloudForecast customer? It's already connected.
3. Your data is ready
Within 24–36 hours, your Databricks costs are in the dashboard, and daily reports start arriving in Slack, Teams or email.
Every grant and permission is listed in the setup guide.
Free 90-Day Early Access
Get Early Access for Databricks
What you get
- A free 90-day trial of CloudForecast
- DBUs and the AWS compute underneath, in one view
- Cost by workspace, cluster, owner, and tag
- A daily report and spike alerts in email, Slack, or Teams
- A founder-led cost review of Databricks and AWS, worked through with your team. It needs your input, and it shapes the optimization feature we’re building.
- Direct line to me and Francois, not a support queue
What we ask
- A 15-minute demo walkthrough
- 10 min setup call
- A couple of short feedback calls over the first few months
- Your honest take on what’s useful and what’s not
What happens next
- Send a request. We reply within one business day.
- A 15-minute walkthrough, where we check it’s a fit for both sides.
- If it is, read-only setup on a 10-minute call.
- We review your first cost reports together.
When we launch
$499/month flat. Unlimited workspaces, AWS costs included, not tied to DBUs or usage. Early access teams get a discount.
No credit card now. No auto-charge at launch. We’ll talk before anything changes.