topic Re: Databricks Free Edition - Accessing files in S3 in Data Engineering

Databricks Free Edition - Accessing files in S3

libpekin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:45:56 GMT

Hello,

Attempting read/write files from s3 but got the error below. I am on the free edition (serverless by default). I'm using access_key and secret_key. Has anyone done this successfully? Thanks!

Directly accessing the underlying Spark driver JVM using the attribute '_jsc' is not supported on serverless compute. If you require direct access to these fields, consider using a single-user cluster. For more details on compatibility and limitations, check:

Re: Databricks Free Edition - Accessing files in S3

Sanjeeb2024 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:25:21 GMT

I do not think you can read files from S3 in free edition. The best way of playing with free edition, upload the data in volumes and develop your pipelines.

Re: Databricks Free Edition - Accessing files in S3

libpekin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:18:04 GMT

Thank @Sanjeeb2024 I was able to confirm as well