Options to access files in the community edition

[adihc]

As of now DBFS option is disabled in the Databricks community edition. 

What are the other ways to use file in the Databricks notebooks for learning? When I go to catalog it show default option only with the AWS S3. 

Is it the only option to access the files in the community edition now? For my learning I want to upload few types of file. Ex: CSV, JSON, Parquet etc... 

[gchandra]

The workaround will be to Mount the S3 bucket and use that as your source.

access_key = ""

secret_key = ""

encoded_secret_key = secret_key.replace("/", "%2F")

aws_bucket_name = "yourawsbucketname/"

mount_name = "youraliasmountname"

# #dbutils.fs.unmountf"/mnt/{mount_name}")

dbutils.fs.mount(f"s3a://{access_key}:{encoded_secret_key}@{aws_bucket_name}", f"/mnt/{mount_name}")

After mounting
goto next cell %fs ls /mnt/youraliasmountname

[Riporsa3011]

Any info on when the DBFS local file option will be back? It was the only option to keep studying without a paywall for me. Aprecciate your help.

[gchandra]

Signup for AWS Free https://aws.amazon.com/free/

You can use S3 buckets with IAM policies and use them with Databricks.

This is a good skill to have apart from using Databricks.

[Riporsa3011]

Unfortunately, the AWS Free requires Billing (cr***t card) information to proceed with the account, which I can't provide, since I don't have one. The DBFS option was working just fine a few days ago, do you anticipate this option coming back in the future? I'm sure it will help lots of other students.

[adihc]

Thanks for the answer @gchen. Apart from S3, there is no other option available in the community edition now?

[gchandra]

Try this technique

https://medium.com/@gchandra/databricks-how-to-load-data-from-google-drive-github-c98d6b34d1b5?sk=67...