Organization Preferences

Overview

The Preferences section in Organization Settings allows Admins to configure the default settings that will be automatically applied whenever any member in your Organization creates a new notebook.

Setting these preferences helps streamline your workflow by pre-selecting your most commonly used configurations.

Before you start

Before using this feature, ensure that you have the following required resources:

• An Admin Account within a Community, Professional, or Enterprise Edition Organization. For more information, see Create a Wherobots Account.

How it works

When you initiate the creation of a new notebook, the system will automatically populate the runtime, environment, and region settings based on the values you have saved in these preferences. You can typically still change these settings manually for any individual notebook during the creation process if needed.

Benefits

The following are benefits related to setting defaults in the Preferences section of Wherobots Cloud.

Time Savings

By setting defaults for Runtime, Environment Preset, and Region, members in your Organization can avoid repetitive configuration each time they create a new notebook. This streamlines the setup process, saving clicks and time, allowing members to get to their work faster.

Cost Savings

• Setting a Default Runtime (e.g., to TINY or SMALL) helps prevent accidentally starting notebooks with unnecessarily large compute resources.
• Choosing a Default Region close to your primary data sources can potentially minimize data egress costs associated with processing data stored in that region.

EU Region Support

Admins can set eu-west-1 as their Organization's default for their notebooks.

Region Default only applies to Notebooks

Setting a Region default in Organization Settings > Preferences only applies to notebooks, not Job Runs or SQL Sessions.

This ensures new notebooks compute within the EU, which is beneficial for:

• Compliance: Meeting data sovereignty requirements like GDPR.
• Latency: Providing potentially lower latency for members or data located in Europe.

Default Runtime

Attribute	Details
Description	This setting determines the default compute instance size (e.g., CPU, memory) that will be allocated to the runtime environment when you create a new notebook.
Options	The available options are based on the runtime sizes available to your Organization SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, etc.
Purpose	Select the runtime size that best matches the typical resource needs for your notebooks.

Default Environment Preset

Attribute	Details
Description	This specifies the default software environment preset to be used for new notebooks. An environment preset typically defines the operating system, programming language versions (like Python), and pre-installed libraries (like Spark, pandas, etc.).
Options	The available options depend on the environment presets created by the Admins within your Organization.
Purpose	Choose the base environment that includes the core tools and libraries you use most frequently.

Default Environment Override Preset

Attribute	Details
Description	This setting allows you to select a default override preset, which might apply specific modifications, additional libraries, or configurations on top of the selected 'Default Environment Preset' for new notebooks.
Options	The available options depend on the environment override presets created by the Admins within your Organization.
Purpose	Use this if you commonly need a specific variation or addition to your standard environment preset.

Default Region

Region Default only applies to Notebooks

Setting a Region default in Organization Settings > Preferences only applies to notebooks, not Job Runs or SQL Sessions.

Attribute	Details
Description	This defines the default geographic compute region where the runtime environment for your new notebooks will be provisioned.
Options	AWS us-west-2, AWS eu-west-1.
Purpose	Select the region that is often closest to your data sources, provides the best latency for your location, or meets specific compliance needs.