THE SNOWFLAKE PLATFORM
A single, global platform for your data and your essential workloads, with seamless data collaboration
Guide Book
The Data Cloud for Dummies
ONE PLATFORM THAT UNLOCKS NEAR-UNLIMITED DATA OPPORTUNITIES
Optimal Performance for Any Workload
Never worry about resource contention again. Snowflake’s single elastic performance engine delivers instant and near-unlimited scale. Support a virtually unlimited number of concurrent users and workloads ranging from interactive to batch—all with reliable, fast performance, thanks to Snowflake’s multi-cluster resource isolation.
Fully Automated So You Can Harness (Not Manage) Data
Trade in manual management and maintenance for automations that enable you to easily operate at scale, optimize costs, and minimize downtime. Snowflake’s platform is fully managed to support effortless data management, security, governance, availability, and data resiliency―reducing risk and improving your operational efficiency.
Collaborate, Globally and Securely
Say goodbye to ETL and data silos. Easily and securely access and share a single copy of your data across your departments, business units, and subsidiaries; with your supply chain and other business ecosystem partners; and with thousands of organizations that comprise the Data Cloud. Seamlessly connect cross-cloud and cross-region and enable global governance policies that follow the data.
From a Single Platform, Snowflake Enables Your Most Critical Data Workloads:
Cross-Cloud SnowGrid
- INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE
- ELASTIC PERFORMANCE ENGINE
- OPTIMIZED STORAGE
THE THREE LAYERS OF SNOWFLAKE’S PLATFORM
Elastic Performance Engine
- Simplify your architecture with one engine that can power complex data pipelines, large-scale analytics, feature engineering, interactive applications, and more, across your critical data workloads.
- Instantly and cost-efficiently scale to handle virtually any number of concurrent users and workloads, without impacting performance.
- With robust SQL support and the Snowpark developer framework for Java and Scala access, users with nearly any skill set can harness Snowflake. They can even use their favorite external tools directly with native pushdown integrations.
Intelligent Infrastructure
- Let Snowflake handle the heavy lifting so your team can focus on what matters to your business. As a fully managed service, automations help you reduce risk, improve efficiencies, and focus your teams on high-value data initiatives.
- Snowflake is built for high availability and high reliability so you can stay up-and-running. It automates complex data replication, whether it’s cross-region or even cross-cloud so you can recover quickly.
- Get continual improvements to Snowflake for faster performance, better storage compression, and more—all automatically with no action required. Optimize costs with usage-based pricing and fine-grained controls to rightsize resources for all your data and workloads.
Snowgrid
- Share and collaborate easily without ETL, and all with a single copy of your data. Break down data silos to instantly access data. Discover and share governed data between teams, business units, partners, customers, and more.
- Sophisticated cross-cloud governance controls and flexible policies ensure Snowflake’s modern data sharing and collaboration is secure. Policies follow the data to simplify governance at scale, while unlocking more value from even sensitive and regulated data.
- Maintain new levels of business continuity with cross-cloud and cross-region connectivity, so you can operate without disruption and deliver better customer experiences. Comply with regional and industry data regulations so you can operate locally and globally to grow and serve your business.
- Discover and access the most relevant data at your fingertips with Snowflake Marketplace. Enrich your insights with third-party data, connect with thousands of Snowflake customers, and extend your workflows with data services and third-party functions.
Getting started with Snowflake is easy
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