RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED - I cannot work with a serverless in my free account. Do you know why?

alfredoigmen
New Contributor

‎04-16-2026 04:59 PM

Hi team, 

 

I am seeing this when trying to have a dummy project. Do you know why? 

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Sumit_7
Esteemed Contributor

‎04-16-2026 10:02 PM

@alfredoigmen Free Edition comes with few limitations as it incurs cost to Databricks. As in your case the SQL warehouse is limited to a 2X-Small cluster size. Many more, read here-https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/getting-started/free-edition-limitations

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aleksandra_ch
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

‎04-17-2026 06:10 AM

Hi @alfredoigmen ,

Do you have a Notebook with active Serverless (attached to it) and/or an ETL pipeline running at the same time? Free Edition is limited in resources usage, so for smooth experience the recommendation is to run 1-2 workloads in parallel (SQL query / notebook / ETL pipeline) at a time.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,

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balajij8
Contributor III

‎04-17-2026 06:12 AM

@alfredoigmen Databricks workspace's compute resources will be shut down and unavailable for the rest of the day (a month in extreme cases) if you exceed the quota. While the compute will be unavailable, Data and settings will not be deleted. You can resume the work when the limit resets. Free Edition accounts may not be used for commercial purposes

More details here

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