The Target Architecture ← you are here
Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery
The north-star design behind our Databricks platform — Lakehouse and Medallion under Unity Catalog governance, three fully isolated zones (prod, dev, sandbox), zero-copy reads, and a promote path that keeps humans out of production writes.
The Target Architecture ← you are here
Building a Databricks AI Platform on AWS
RBAC with Function-Role Groups
Compute Governance: Pools, Policies, Clusters
The BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT Mystery

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