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Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:18:36 GMT

Free edition keeps giving following error for serverless compute and SQL warehouse

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:20:22 GMT

Adding one more image

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

TheOC — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:25:30 GMT

hi @bizkit
Could you try the two suggested solutions in this thread:
https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/in-data-bricks-free-edition-serverless-compute-is-not-working/td-p/122050

I'm hopeful they help, but if not let me know and I'll have another look!

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:28:34 GMT

OC,

I tried

1. deleting the old notebook and creating a new one and selecting General Compute

2. I also deleted the existing instance and created a new one. After this i tried creating a SQL wearhouse

3. Whether I create a new instance or delete existing notebook the result is the same.

4. From the other thread --"I experienced the same yesterday when I imported some of my notebooks. I noticed that this error only appeared for imported notebooks because the environment version was 1 by default. Changing the environment version to 2 solved the problem for me. Maybe this is the solution for your case too". -- This is not applicable to me as i did not import the notebook. Yet I tried selecting '4' in a newly created notebook. Its the same result even if I select 1, 2 or 3. This looks like something else. Request you to investigate. I really need to get this working. I am targeting at least 2 certifications by November

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:02:02 GMT

IS there any update on this ticket after my reply ?

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:49:25 GMT

Hi @bizkit ,

This is really weird, How did you even create warehouse in Free Edition? You shouldn't be able to do that. There's following limitation:

In my Free Edition I cannot create any other warehouse. I can only use existing one:

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

WiliamRosa — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:59:46 GMT

Hi @bizkit

I tested it with the free edition and actually reached the same point as @szymon_dybczak . I’ll even share the link with the limitations he mentioned, which is exactly as far as I got as well:
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:01:09 GMT

@szymon_dybczak @WiliamRosa so how do we go about fixing the issue ? DO i need to do something from my side?

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

bizkit — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:31:40 GMT

@szymon_dybczak @WiliamRosa . I got to the bottom of the problem. This is my fault. Looks like I was in the "Community Edition" rather than the "Free". I had to 'create' a free edition though I used the existing account. Apologies for the confusion.

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:28:28 GMT

Thanks for sharing with us @bizkit !

Re: Databricks free edition serverless compute not starting

TheOC — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:41:04 GMT

That's good to know thanks for the recap @bizkit, glad you found the solution!