[eximius]

You'll find plenty of the customer base of Databricks used to run their own clusters.

It's a tradeoff. It might cost less dollars but more time. The time and expertise to run their own clusters effectively is not something every org can or desires to do.

[buttaphingas]

And to get the very best price for those clusters your you'd need to commit to the CSP for three years!

Would love to know the TCO trade-off between procuring, securing and deploying on your own clusters vs having them managed via SaaS.