How many workspaces should we have?

[StephanieAlba]

There is a default limitation for workspace numbers in a Databricks account, which is 50 for an enterprise account: https://docs.databricks.com/en/resources/limits.html

What is the best practice if we need more than 50 workspaces? Will we need more accounts? 

Should we consider having more accounts from the start with some boundaries like sandbox/staging/production?

[-werners- · Accepted solution]

if you need more than 50 workspaces, I would seriously consider handling that with Infrastructure-as-Code.
You could open multiple accounts (perhaps over regions) and deploy workspaces accordingly.
Having a dev/qas/prod split is a good idea, but beware that Unity has a limit of a single Unity Catalog per region, so an actual physical split is not possible (it can be achieved using permissions though, but that is not a hard split).

[StephanieAlba]

Thank you for your response @-werners- , I should have been clear. I cannot edit my post. I am going to make a new one.

https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/what-is-best-practice-for-determinin...

[Raluka]

Thank you so much for helping me. I didn't even expect it.