While most teams can get an Apache Spark™ cluster running in AWS quickly, just about everyone runs into challenges while scaling out, productionizing, adding tools around Spark, or trying to get support.

Databricks, the company founded by the team who created Spark, has built a solution dedicated to maximize the potential of Spark in AWS.

In this white paper, we will discuss the common problems teams encounter while trying to operationalize Spark in AWS, and how Databricks can help with our unique expertise.