Relationship between Databricks Account and Azure resources

[knawara]

Hello,

What is the relationship between Databricks Account (as described in [1]) and Azure resources? Is Databricks Account created per Azure account? Or per Azure tenant? Or maybe per subscription?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/administration-guide/account-settings/

[knawara]

Hi @Kaniz Fatma​ , thank you for your response.

As far as I understand the hierarchy in Azure is as follows:

Azure Account -> Tenancy -> Subscription -> Resource Group -> Resource

In my account I have multiple tenants and they have multiple subscription. You said that "Your Databricks account is linked to your Azure subscription". Does it mean that each subscription needs to have a dedicated Databricks account?

[knawara]

Hi @Kaniz Fatma​ !

Is account created implicitly? Or is it created explicitly and then linked to workspaces?

To give you some background for the question - we're part of a big organisation, with a lot of different teams. Each team gets (from a central Azure team) their own Azure subscription with a full admin access. Azure root account and tenant is shared by entire organization.

Now we'd like to enable Unity Catalog for our workspaces, but for that account-level access is required. If Databricks account can be scoped down to an Azure subscription, we're good - the central Azure team could give us admin rights to the account. But if account is, by definition, linked to workspaces across subscriptions and tenants they can't - and it's a big deal to get it set up in a secure way. This most likely means no Unity Catalog for us

[Anonymous]

Hi @Chris Nawara​ 

Hope everything is going great.

Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue. If yes, would you be happy to mark an answer as best so that other members can find the solution more quickly? If not, please tell us so we can help you. 

Cheers!

[knawara]

Hi,
Still waiting for the reply to my follow-up question 🙂
Best regards,
Chris