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This article explains how serverless compute works on Databricks. The current serverless offerings include serverless SQL warehouses (Public Preview).
Serverless SQL warehouses are on-demand elastic compute used to run SQL commands on data objects in the SQL editor or interactive notebooks. You can create SQL warehouses using the UI, CLI, or REST API. See What are Serverless SQL warehouses?.
What is Serverless compute?
Serverless compute enhances productivity, cost efficiency, and reliability in the following ways:
Productivity: Cloud resources are managed by Databricks, reducing management overhead and providing instant compute to enhance user productivity.
Efficiency: Serverless compute offers rapid start-up and scaling times, minimizing idle time and ensuring you only pay for the compute you use.
Reliability: With serverless compute, capacity handling, security, patching, and upgrades are managed automatically, alleviating concerns about security policies and capacity shortages.