Azure Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud, designed to accelerate innovation by bringing together data science, data engineering, and business collaboration. It provides a collaborative workspace with interactive notebooks, enabling users to explore data, build models, and develop data pipelines using languages like Python, Scala, R, Java, and SQL. Built on Apache Spark, Azure Databricks offers a fast and scalable environment for big data processing and machine learning, featuring optimized connectors for Azure storage services and the ability to automatically scale and terminate clusters to manage costs. It supports building an enterprise data lakehouse, performing ETL and data engineering tasks, and developing machine learning and AI applications, all within a secure and managed Azure environment.