Moderate to move
Databricks on DigitalOcean: what it becomes and what it costs.
On DigitalOcean, Databricks becomes Spark on DigitalOcean dedicated-CPU Droplets, or Databricks on your own cloud. This line is the DBU platform fee; cluster VMs bill under Virtual Machines and are already modelled.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
10% of today
DBUs at $0.15–0.55/h are the platform fee; the VMs are in the Virtual Machines line. Self-hosted Spark leaves a driver / scheduler node, about 10%.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Your own Databricks line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Databricks included, on DigitalOcean list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.