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Your lakehouse bill is 60% idle — five places waste hides

Where Databricks spend leaks — clusters that never scale to zero, monitor queries, OPTIMIZE on unread tables, failed-job retries — and the system tables that find it.

The trade-off I'd flag

Measure cost per job before optimising anything. Most teams discover the top three jobs account for the majority of the waste.

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