It's the first week of the quarter. Finance wants last month's Snowflake spend broken down by business units. Security wants to know who has ACCOUNTADMIN privileges in production. An engineer just left the company and needs to be offboarded. For a platform team running countless accounts, each of these is a day of logins, scripts and spreadsheets. It shouldn't be.
Most Snowflake customers start with one account. Few stay there. A few years in, the estate is dozens or hundreds of accounts and each one is its own administrative island.
- Visibility is fragmented. For FinOps and platform leads, answering "what did we spend last month?" or "who has ACCOUNTADMIN?" means logging into each account or building a custom aggregation pipeline.
- Identity is duplicated. The same engineer gets a separate user object in every account — and those copies drift every time someone changes roles or leaves.
- Controls are copy-pasted and administrative work is repeated. For security teams, network policies, SCIM integrations and security baselines get configured account by account. Administrators provision the same user over and over to multiple accounts. Every configuration is a chance for something to slip through the cracks.
The teams responsible for managing the Snowflake estate across hundreds of accounts can't get the cross-account visibility they need. And when they can, the data is scattered across per-account views, one-off scripts and manual processes. Snowflake Organizations brings it all together, and Organization Hub is where you work with it: one place to observe, govern and administer the Snowflake accounts in your organization. Organization Hub is now generally available for organizations with ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views enabled.
Organization Hub
Everything starts with the organization account, a dedicated account that acts as the control plane for your Snowflake estate. Organization Hub (generally available) is its home: Platform and governance teams can see organization-wide signals on cost, security and usage, then act on them by delegating access, setting budgets and enforcing standards, all from one place. (Note: Organization budgets are currently in private preview.)
Beyond the dashboard, the organization-management skill in Snowflake CoCo allows you to dig deeper into insights and move faster on cost and security decisions. Manage and optimize your estate with plain language, such as "How can we optimize our spend across accounts?" or "How is MFA adoption trending?"
Cost optimization and AI spend across your organization
Organization budgets (private preview) let you define and track spend in dollars across your entire estate from a single view. Select which accounts to monitor, with the option to automatically include new accounts as they're created, and set budgets by service type or by organization tag. Notifications alert you based on actual or projected spend, so you can act before you hit your limits.
As AI adoption accelerates, nine new AI-specific Organization Usage views show how each Cortex AI feature contributes to overall spend — giving finance, platform and engineering teams a central view of AI feature usage across the organization. Five of these views are automatically surfaced in Organization Hub, so you can optimize your AI spend right away.
Proactive security monitoring and third-party access
Security baselines are only as strong as the least-configured account. Snowflake Organizations helps teams define a security baseline once and monitor it across their accounts. Now generally available.
Organization Trust Center also allows administrators to enable scanner packages from the organization account and review coverage across their accounts. Now in public preview.
For organizations that need to host or share accounts with external collaborators or partners, third-party access configuration in Command Center provides centralized controls to govern that access: classifying which accounts are internal vs. external and monitoring third-party activity across your organization. Now generally available.
Cross-account identity management
One identity, many accounts. Define a user or group once in the organization account, set which accounts can see it and let account admins import it; each imported group automatically becomes a consistent role. Manage the full lifecycle centrally: onboard, update and offboard organization users across the accounts they're imported into, from a single place. Now generally available.
Get started
Create an organization account and sign in with GLOBALORGADMIN to unlock Organization Hub.
Requirements: Organization accounts and organization users require Enterprise Edition or higher. Organization Hub requires ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views, which are billed based on usage.
Learn more:
- Organization accounts — create the organization account and configure GLOBALORGADMIN
- Organization Hub Insights — org-wide cost, security and query health dashboards
- Organization Command Center — configure organization-wide settings, budgets and third-party access
- Organization users — create and manage cross-account identities and groups
- Premium views — 140+ org-level usage views across cost, security, governance and AI
Stay tuned as deeper dives on each pillar of Snowflake Organizations will be coming soon!
Forward-looking statements
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