topic When a workspace is decommissioned / cancelled, what happens to the root bucket? in Administration & Architecture https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23151#M121 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:49:13 GMT Anonymous 2025-03-18T16:49:13Z When a workspace is decommissioned / cancelled, what happens to the root bucket? https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23151#M121 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:49:13 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23151#M121 Anonymous 2025-03-18T16:49:13Z Re: When a workspace is decommissioned / cancelled, what happens to the root bucket? https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23152#M122 <P>If a workspace is deleted, then the root bucket is also deleted. </P> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:02:19 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23152#M122 Ryan_Chynoweth 2021-06-21T19:02:19Z Re: When a workspace is decommissioned / cancelled, what happens to the root bucket? https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23153#M123 <P><A href="https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/account.html#operation/patch-workspace" alt="https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/account.html#operation/patch-workspace" target="_blank">Delete workspace</A> doesn't delete the root bucket. You could choose to use the same root bucket for more than one workspace ( though not recommended ) </P><P></P><P>It is recommended to automate the infrastructure creation via <A href="https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databrickslabs/databricks/latest/docs" alt="https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databrickslabs/databricks/latest/docs" target="_blank">terraform</A> or <A href="https://databricks.com/blog/2020/10/29/announcing-databricks-on-aws-quick-starts-to-deploy-in-under-15-minutes.html" alt="https://databricks.com/blog/2020/10/29/announcing-databricks-on-aws-quick-starts-to-deploy-in-under-15-minutes.html" target="_blank">quickstart</A> so that cleanup could be automated as well </P> Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:57:15 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/when-a-workspace-is-decommissioned-cancelled-what-happens-to-the/m-p/23153#M123 sajith_appukutt 2021-06-23T06:57:15Z