Workspace settings

Enable or disable a workspace - what each does, when to use it, and how it differs from deleting.

Beyond creating and deleting, a workspace has one pause control: disable, which locks the workspace from all access without deleting it. To pause compute for cost savings, suspend individual clusters instead. This page covers enabling and disabling a workspace.

Disable a workspace

From the Control Plane:

1. Open Workspaces in the left navigation.
2. Find the workspace and open its row actions.
3. Click Disable and confirm.

The status changes to Disabled. While disabled, users can't open the Compute Plane, API and driver connections are rejected, clusters are stopped, and configuration (catalogs, clusters, roles) is preserved.

Re-enable a workspace

Open Workspaces, find the disabled workspace, click Enable, and confirm. The workspace returns to Running. Clusters that were running before disable are not automatically restarted - start them manually.

Disable vs delete

	Disable	Delete
Reversible	Yes (Enable)	No
Compute cost while inactive	None	None (resource gone)
Configuration preserved	Yes	No
User access	Blocked	None
Run history	Preserved	Removed

If you might bring the workspace back, disable it. Only delete when you're certain you won't.

When not to disable

Situation	Use instead
You want to pause one cluster, not the whole workspace	Cluster suspend and resume
You want to remove a workspace permanently	Delete workspace

See also

• Create and manage workspaces
• Delete workspace
• Cluster suspend and resume