Which of the following is stored in the Databricks customer's cloud account?

The correct answer is D. Data. Databricks follows a shared responsibility model. The customer's cloud account (AWS, Azure, or GCP) hosts the data plane, which includes the actual data stored in cloud object storage (e.g., S3, ADLS, GCS) and the compute clusters. The Databricks control plane - which includes…

Submitted by brentm· Apr 18, 2026Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Question

Which of the following is stored in the Databricks customer's cloud account?

Options

ADatabricks web application
BCluster management metadata
CRepos
DData
ENotebooks

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B
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C
3% (1)
D
90% (28)

Explanation

Databricks follows a shared responsibility model. The customer's cloud account (AWS, Azure, or GCP) hosts the data plane, which includes the actual data stored in cloud object storage (e.g., S3, ADLS, GCS) and the compute clusters. The Databricks control plane - which includes the web application, cluster management metadata, Repos, and Notebooks - is managed and hosted by Databricks in Databricks's own cloud account. Data itself always resides in the customer's environment.

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#Databricks Architecture#Cloud Architecture#Data Plane#Cloud Storage

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