Azure Databricks is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)

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Published

Jun 9, 2020

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • June 2020
    Preview

Product

Azure Databricks

Tag

Features
Regions & Datacenters
Open Source

Category

AI + machine learning
Analytics

Description

Azure Databricks is now available in preview to Azure Government customers in the US Gov Virginia and Arizona regions. Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark™-based analytics platform as a fully managed service It helps you increase your developer productivity, automatically scales with your most demanding workloads, and enables enterprise-grade security that’s easy to use on Azure.  

The Azure Government cloud provides a dedicated cloud with world-class security, protection, and compliance services to the US government, the public sector, and their partners interested in transforming mission-critical workloads on the cloud. 

This preview announcement validates Azure Databricks security and compliance as ready for high-impact data analytics and AI across a wide range of government agencies, state and local government, public universities, and government contractor use cases. Begin using Azure Databricks to drive secure data-driven insights on sensitive data in the cloud while minimizing risk.

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