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Cluster Policies

Platform SecurityMedium Complexity📚 Medium

Control what compute resources users can create

Decision Guide

When to Use

  • Cloud costs are unpredictable because users spin up oversized clusters
  • Need to enforce specific runtime versions for security or compatibility
  • Want to prevent users from disabling security features via Spark config
  • Self-service compute creation without admin bottleneck
  • Standardising cluster configurations across teams

When NOT to Use

  • All users use serverless compute or SQL warehouses
  • Very small team (under 5) where everyone is an admin

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