In this post, I will explain the details on how to setup Databricks Workspace on AWS Cloud.

1. Navigate to <https://www.databricks.com/try-databricks#account> and register a free trial account and select “AWS Cloud” as your compute cloud provider.
   • Follow the instructions on https://docs.databricks.com/en/getting-started/community-edition.html
2. Login to AWS Cloud Account with your AWS account credential.
3. Return to the Databricks Console > Workspaces and click on “Start Quickstart” button. Click on the “allow pop up” icon on the “Safari” search bar to bring up AWS Console > CloudFormation service.
4. Provide a name, i.e. “MLForProductionV1” for the workspace and click on continue.
5. AWS Console will get populated with CloudFormation template which will create the necessary AWS resources such as S3 bucket, IAM roles and lambda function as screenshot below:
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6. Return to Databricks console and a new workspace is created.
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7. Click on the “Open” hyperlink to bring up the workspace.
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8. Click on the “Compute” service and create a computer cluster for the workspace:
   • Single node
   • Databricks Runtime Version
     • ML > 11.3 LTS ML (includes Apache Spark 3.3.0, Scala 2.12)
   • Node Type: i3.xlarge