We're excited to introduce the Lakeflow Connect Free Tier on Azure Databricks, so you can easily bring your enterprise data into your lakehouse to build analytics and AI applications faster.
Modern applications require reliable access to operational data, especially for training analytics and AI agents, but connecting and gathering data across silos can be challenging. With this new release, you can seamlessly ingest all of your enterprise data from SaaS and database sources to unlock data intelligence for your AI agents.
Ingest millions of records per day, per workspace for free
This new Lakeflow Connect Free Tier provides 100 DBUs per day, per workspace, which allows you to ingest approximately 100 million records* from many popular data sources**, including SaaS applications and databases.
Unlock your enterprise data for free with Lakeflow Connect
This new offering provides all the benefits of Lakeflow Connect, eliminating the heavy lifting so your teams can focus on unlocking data insights instead of managing infrastructure.
In the past year, Databricks has continued rolling out several fully managed connectors, supporting popular data sources. The free tier supports popular SaaS applications (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Analytics, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics 365), and top-used databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse, and BigQuery).
Lakeflow Connect benefits include:
- Simple UI: Avoid complex setups and architectural overhead, these fully managed connectors provide a simple UI and API to democratize data access. Automated features also help simplify pipeline maintenance with minimal overhead.
- Efficient ingestion: Increase efficiency and accelerate time to value. Optimized incremental reads and writes and data transformation help improve the performance and reliability of your pipelines, reduce bottlenecks, and reduce impact to the source data for scalability.
- Unified with the Databricks Platform: Create ingestion pipelines with governance from Unity Catalog, observability from Lakehouse Monitoring, and seamless orchestration with Lakeflow Jobs for analytics, AI and BI.
Availability
The Lakeflow Connect Free Tier is available starting today on Azure Databricks.
If you are at FabCon in Atlanta, Accelerating Data and AI with Azure Databricks on Thursday, March 19th, 8:00–9:00 AM, room C302 to see how these capabilities come together to accelerate performance, simplify architecture, and maximize value on Azure
Getting Started Resources
To learn more about the Lakeflow Connect Free Tier and Lakeflow Connect, review our pricing page, and documentation. Get started ingesting your data today for free, signup with an Azure free account.
- Get started with Azure Databricks for free
- Product tour: Databricks Lakeflow Connect for Salesforce: Powering Smarter Selling with AI and Analytics
- Product tour: Effortless ServiceNow Data Ingestion with Databricks Lakeflow Connect
- Product tour: Simplify Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect: From Google Analytics to AI
- On-demand video: Use Lakeflow Connect for Salesforce to predict customer churn
- On-demand video: Databricks Lakeflow Connect for Workday Reports: Connect, Ingest, and Analyze Workday Data Without Complexity
- On-demand video: Data Ingestion With Lakeflow Connect
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* Your actual ingestion capacity will vary based on specific workload characteristics, record sizes, and source types.
** Excludes Zerobus Ingest, Auto Loader and other self-managed connectors. Customer will continue to incur charges for underlying infrastructure consumption from the cloud vendor.
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