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Performance · Low severity

Photon Not Enabled

Queries run on the slower engine, so the same job holds the cluster for longer and is billed for that extra time.

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3clouds covered
Lowseverity
Advisorywhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudDatabricks

Found, explained, handed over.

What we would change and why, with no savings claim and no policy behind it.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Enable the Photon engine on the cluster.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Databricks Cluster on AWS, Databricks Cluster on Azure, Databricks Cluster on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand on AWS
  1. Enable Photon acceleration in the cluster runtime configuration.
  2. Benchmark DBU consumption before broad rollout.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Performance. A measured bottleneck worth clearing: throttled operations, undersized tiers, a workload near its limit.
Where it appears
The Advisory tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule IDs
RC-2211 RC-2311 RC-2411
Full reference

Photon Not Enabled

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