Snowflake Review: Best Managed Warehouse, at a Price
What Snowflake Is Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse built on a multi-cluster shared-data architecture. Storage and compute are separated: your data lives in cloud object storage (S3, GCS, or Azure Blob), and Virtual Warehouses — independently sized compute clusters — query it on demand. You can scale compute up or down, or suspend it entirely, without touching your data. It runs on AWS, Azure, and GCP but Snowflake manages every layer; you never touch infrastructure. ...