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Hi,

I come from a traditional ETL background and am having trouble understanding some of the cloud hyper scalar features and use cases.

I understand Databricks is hosted on a cloud providers. I see the cloud providers have their own tools for ETL, ML/AI etc. So what is the advantage or use case for using Databricks over the cloud providers tools.

Please explain like you would to a 5yr old :). As I said I am totally new to this space.

-Benedict