Data Engineering
Build reliable, continuous data pipelines for the enterprise in the language of your choice.
Product
The SnowflakePlatform
Accelerate time to data and AI innovation on a fully managed, enterprise-ready platform that is easy to use, connected across your entire data and AI estate, and trusted by thousands.
use cases
The Unified Platform for Enterprise Data and AI
Maintain trust
The universal AI catalog: Context and governance for AI over all data
Effectively protect your most sensitive data and AI assets with enterprise-grade security and governance.
Manage secure, cross-engine access to data in open table formats and get read/write access for all Iceberg tables.
Provide context to AI agents for useful, trustworthy output.
Connect ecosystems across regions and clouds with unified manageability, business continuity and disaster recovery, and seamless collaboration.
Manage cost and performance
Time is money — save both with Snowflake
- See, control and optimize your Snowflake spend through a unified Cost Management Interface.
- Check query performance easily to proactively save on costs.
- Automatically benefit from regular rollouts of performance improvements across all workloads.
Monitor, troubleshoot and debug
Get faster telemetry across your AI and data
- Start with Snowflake’s built-in observability in a few simple steps, and seamlessly export telemetry data to your preferred third-party tools as needed.
- Evaluate gen AI quality, compare model configurations and trace execution flows without exporting sensitive data.
- Address bottlenecks quicker with deeper, more unified visibility across your applications, pipelines and infrastructure.
Innovate with warehouses and container services
Enjoy regular, automatic performance improvements and extend your platform
Experience 2.0x¶ faster performance for core analytics workloads with Standard Warehouse - Generation 2, Snowflake’s updated Standard Warehouse with upgraded hardware and additional performance enhancements.
- Snowflake Adaptive Compute* offers enhanced ease of use with better price for performance through automatic selection of right-sized compute resources shared optimally across an account and intelligent query routing. Use this compute service to create new Adaptive Warehouses.*
- Snowpark Container Services (SPCS) is a powerful extension that turns Snowflake into a platform for running containers, services and AI/ML apps securely and natively alongside your data.
All your data in one place
Run transactional applications, analytics and AI on one unified platform
Stop managing separate databases. Instead, let Snowflake help unify your data footprint, so you can run transactional workloads alongside all your other workloads on a single platform.
Choose from two powerful capabilities: Snowflake Postgres for enterprise-ready Postgres, or Unistore’s Hybrid Tables to manage application state and build lightweight transactional apps directly on Snowflake.
Eliminate data pipelines to help reduce complexity, lower costs and innovate faster.
Benefits
An easy, connected and trusted platform
- Fully Managed
- Cross-Cloud
- Interoperable
- Secure
- Governed
Snowflake Intelligence
Empower every user to answer complex questions in natural language with their own personalized enterprise intelligence agent.
EASY
Accelerate time to innovation
Save time and money with a single fully managed platform for all workloads that is scalable, self-improving and has built-in FinOps for optimal cost efficiency
CONNECTED
Collaborate with cutting-edge tools
Accelerate strategic decision-making and unlock new business opportunities with an open architecture that provides direct access to the most complete ecosystem of AI-ready data, apps and agentic products.
TRUSTED
Reduce risk
Protect your assets and brand reputation by reducing compliance and security risks. Power your most mission-critical data, apps and AI workloads with enterprise-grade security, governance, observability and business continuity/disaster recovery controls across regions and clouds.
"The Snowflake Data Cloud has given us the power to harness and integrate data to create insights. With data at our fingertips, we are growing revenue, becoming more cost effective and, most importantly, improving the customer experience.”
Andy Markus
Chief Data Officer, AT&T
- 84% savings on estimated annual costs, thanks to results caching
- < 1 second to answer 90% of user queries via self-service dashboards
"KFC’s data sharing processes changed from taking days to being completed in just seconds. This allows access to more data faster and allows us to achieve greater insights and enhance our advanced analytics capabilities.”
Luis Bastos
Data Architect, KFC
- 70% fewer database operational costs
- 500K+ order transactions processed daily
“We’re talking about working with sensitive patient data — data that’s related to people’s mental health and specific clinical conditions so we have to build in security, governance, auditability, traceability and compliance from the very beginning, which Snowflake helps us achieve.”
Shahran Haider
Deputy Chief Data Officer at NYC Health + Hospital
- 5 minutes to equip users with updated membership data — down from five days
- 100B+ rows of healthcare data in Snowflake provide a holistic view of patients
Resources
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Get Started
Take the next stepwith Snowflake
Start your 30-day free Snowflake trial today
- $400 in free usage to start
- Immediate access to the AI Data Cloud
- Enable your most critical data workloads
Snowflake Platform
Frequently Asked Questions
Get common questions answered about the Snowflake platform and its capabilities.
Is the Snowflake platform serverless?
Yes, the Snowflake platform is a fully managed service with many serverless capabilities. While you configure virtual warehouses, Snowflake handles the underlying infrastructure, scaling and maintenance.
Does Snowflake work across clouds and regions?
Yes, Snowflake supports multi-cloud and cross-region operations. It’s available on major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) across numerous global regions. Snowflake’s Snowgrid enables cross-cloud and cross-region data sharing, replication for business continuity, and a consistent experience independent of the underlying cloud.
Does Snowflake offer built-in security and governance?
Yes, Snowflake has built-in security and governance features. This includes end-to-end encryption, role-based access control (RBAC), network policies, multi-factor authentication and data masking. Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides a unified governance solution with features like data discovery, compliance tools, access history and object tagging.
How does Snowflake billing work?
The two primary cost drivers are compute and storage. For compute resources, Snowflake employs a consumption-based model. Storage costs are based on the amount of data (measured in terabytes per month) stored within Snowflake. To get a detailed breakdown of our pricing and see our consumption table, we encourage you to visit the Snowflake Pricing Page for the most up-to-date and comprehensive information.
Does Snowflake provide built-in dashboards for FinOps?
Yes, Snowflake offers a unified Cost Management Interface that allows you to see, control and optimize your Snowflake spend, serving as a built-in tool for FinOps. This interface also helps you easily check insights to proactively save on costs.
What observability capabilities does Snowflake offer?
Snowflake offers several observability capabilities to monitor your account and workloads, including:
Foundation observability capabilities: Metrics, traces, logs, notifications and alerts
Infrastructure observability: Optimize Snowflake costs and performance through better resource utilization insights.
Pipeline observability: Help ensure reliable data delivery by proactively identifying and fixing pipeline failures.
Application observability: Quickly pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks in applications interacting with Snowflake.
AI observability: Accelerate AI development by confidently evaluating and improving AI agents and apps.
These features help in monitoring performance, troubleshooting and managing costs.
