Delete a workspace
This page shows you how to delete a workspace in your Databricks account.
After a workspace is deleted, Databricks is not responsible for cleaning up the resources attached to that workspace. Databricks recommends terminating all compute resources associated with a workspace before you delete it. Additionally, terminate any associated resources in your cloud provider account.
To delete a workspace:
- Terminate all clusters and instance pools associated with the workspace.
- From the account console, click the Workspaces icon.
- On the row with your workspace, click the kebab menu
then select Delete. Alternatively, click the workspace name, click , then select Delete Workspace. - In the confirmation dialog, type the workspace name and click Confirm Delete.
Workspace catalog retention behavior
If your workspace has Unity Catalog enabled by default, the default workspace catalog is retained after you delete the workspace. The catalog and its managed tables and volumes remain registered in your Unity Catalog metastore. To remove a retained workspace catalog, drop the catalog from another workspace assigned to the same Unity Catalog metastore. For details about the catalog deletion lifecycle and billing, see Object storage lifecycle in Unity Catalog.
On AWS and GCP, workspace deletion does not offer a force-delete option for the workspace catalog. To completely remove the catalog and its data, either drop the catalog before deleting the workspace or, after workspace deletion, drop it from another workspace assigned to the same Unity Catalog metastore.