Introducing Always-On pricing: automatic savings for Databricks Lakebase
Summary
Databricks Lakebase now offers Always-On pricing, providing serverless flexibility with a 25% lower price on baseline capacity for established production workloads. Activate with a single toggle to disable scale-to-zero and set an autoscaling range, then after 24 hours of continuous use, baseline capacity bills at the Always-On rate while spikes bill at standard Autoscaling rates.
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