Fall 2019 saw the first offering of STAT 480 – Data Science Foundations that used public cloud computing resources, specifically Databricks Community Edition and Azure Databricks. While cloud computing is now one aspect of the subject matter of this course, the use of public cloud computing resources (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform, etc.) in instruction has a great deal to recommend it even when cloud computing is not in the foreground of a course. In addition to describing the rationale behind choices like these, the presentation will mention specific Azure Databricks cluster specifications which were useful for the course.