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Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

rseshadri — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:43:46 GMT

I have followed the instructions given in the following link

https://docs.databricks.com/en/admin/workspace/quick-start.html#use-aws-quickstart-to-create-a-databricks-workspace%22

There was an error in CFT while deploying the workspace. Please help

[ERROR] 2024-10-08T12:11:56.458Z ad8dd24a-67ec-4941-8096-3f8d883994b2 Exception: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/rest_client.py", line 75, in handler
post_result = create_workspaces(
File "/var/task/rest_client.py", line 280, in create_workspaces
response = post_request(URL, DATA, encodedbase64, user_agent, version)
File "/var/task/rest_client.py", line 333, in post_request
data = resp.json()
File "/var/task/requests/models.py", line 898, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/var/lang/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:02:29 GMT

Hi @rseshadri ,

I'm more familiar with Azure, but this error is most commonly caused by entering the wrong credentials in the Cloudformation template.

Try to launch the Quickstart again from the Databricks Account Console and double check that you enter the email/password of your Databricks account in the Cloudformation template.

Be aware that the browser will often try to auto-fill these fields with the AWS credentials, so please double check the fields.

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

rseshadri — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:42:10 GMT

Sorry @szymon_dybczak I haven't come across the login page that you have shared

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:16:20 GMT

Ok, so could you look at below video and tell us at which step you've encontered this error?

Setting up your Databricks Workspace on AWS (Quickstart) (youtube.com)

Also, another this. Double check that you meet following requirement from documentation:

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

rseshadri — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:12:37 GMT

Yes @szymon_dybczak I did follow the instructions given in the video. Yes. It is Pay-as-you-go AWS account

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

szymon_dybczak — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:58:12 GMT

Can you tell as at which step/point in time this error occurs? You can use YT video as a reference.

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

rseshadri — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:12:27 GMT

@szymon_dybczak I've attached the cloudwatch events log where it has thrown the error. Please check the attachment where you can read the sequence from top to bottom (earliest at the top) since I can't format the timestamp column properly

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

szymon_dybczak — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:14:15 GMT

Sorry @rseshadri , but I don't have access to AWS account to verify this. Maybe someone else will join to this thread and offer some help.

Re: Unable to install the Databricks in AWS

S_Reo1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:17:24 GMT

Hi @rseshadri
Please check the following two points:

STS Endpoint Activation: Confirm whether the STS endpoint for the us-west-2 region is active. You can verify this from the IAM account settings.
Resource Limits: Ensure that the limits for resources such as VPCs, subnets, and Elastic IPs have not been reached.