Why Snowflake
Built for Your Business: The Enterprise-Ready AI Data Cloud
Run your business-critical workloads with confidence. Enterprise-ready by design, Snowflake delivers built-in security and governance, disaster recovery and an open, high-performance architecture right out of the box.
Snowflake provides the essential capabilities you need to scale and grow your business with the full power of data and AI, all on one unified platform.
Over 12,000 companies power their AI, apps and data on the AI Data Cloud
Business-critical capabilities
Your business can't afford downtime or security gaps. That is why we built cross-cloud disaster recovery, sharing, security and governance in one unified, fully managed solution.
Effortless business continuity and disaster recovery: Get true, out-of-the-box cross-cloud and cross-region disaster recovery. Ensure business continuity with a simple no-code, three-step setup.
Unified security and governance: Snowflake Horizon Catalog is the universal AI catalog that provides context and governance with built-in access and privacy policy controls. It includes proactive cyber defense, threat prevention and recovery.
- Manageability and sharing at scale: Easily manage all accounts within an organization across different clouds and regions while seamlessly sharing AI-ready data, apps and agentic products across teams, partners and customers.
An open platform that puts you in control
Avoid vendor lock-in with an open architecture. We are committed to open standards, giving you the freedom to choose the best tools for your ecosystem and collaborate with your partners.
- Investing in open: Snowflake’s contributions to open source projects, such as Apache Iceberg™, Apache Polaris™, Apache Nifi™ Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) and more help you build or scale your open and connected architecture, wherever the data lives.
- Use any engine: Integrate data from any system and make it interoperable with any compatible engine, ML platform and AI agent with Snowflake Horizon Catalog’s embedded open APIs (Apache Polaris™ and Apache Iceberg™).
- Enjoy choice, not lock-in: Because Snowflake interoperability is powered by open APIs, you can migrate to the leading open source catalog for Iceberg and other formats, Apache Polaris™, anytime.
Scale with unmatched performance and efficiency
You don't have to compromise between speed and cost. Snowflake is engineered to scale as your needs grow — without sacrificing on cost and performance.
Proven speed: Achieve 2x faster performance for core analytics workloads through industry-leading Gen2 warehouses.
Accurate AI: Out-of-the-box AI delivers more than 92% accuracy with data agent workflows.
- Real-world value: Snowflake’s performance and accuracy advantage translates directly into better economics for your production workloads.
Customers
See Why Thousands of Businesses Trust Snowflake
“Our data resiliency is paramount to the stability of the financial markets we serve. Snowflake provides the robust, cross-cloud foundation we need to meet our resiliency objectives.”
Robert Walley
Executive Director, Head of Data and Platform Engineering at DTCC
- 700K daily queries across 15 applications with near-zero data loss
Advertising, Media and Entertainment
“Merkle is obsessive about data privacy where our customers are concerned. Being in Snowflake, which was built from the ground up architecturally with security first in mind, has made so many conversations easier for us.”
John Gajewski
Senior Vice President, Merkle
- 64% Faster data development cycle
- 20% Estimated cost savings
“Snowflake’s support for Apache Iceberg tables meet evolving needs at WHOOP — without jeopardizing budget ... The flexibility and vendor-neutral control of both Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris open source projects are very appealing to ensure interoperability and no lock-in.”
Matt Luizzi
Director of Business Analytics, WHOOP
- 3X faster AI/ML financial forecasting
“Now, when different business units need to share data, it's all in one compliant, secure, trusted place. Snowflake was a key contributor in helping us get to One Pfizer.”
Steven Ring
Director of Enterprise Database Solutions, Pfizer
- 19K annual hours saved
- 57% reduction in TCO
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- $400 in free usage to start
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- Enable your most critical data workloads
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to most common questions about Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
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.
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.
Yes, Snowflake has built-in security and governance features. This includes built-in, end-to-end encryption, security posture management via Snowflake Trust Center, threat prevention like malicious IP, and leaked password protection with immutable zero-copy backups. Snowflake Horizon Catalog provides built-in context and governance for AI across all data with features like data discovery, role and attribute based (RBAC/ABAC) access and privacy policy controls.
Key open source technologies and standards supported by Snowflake include Apache Iceberg, a popular open table format for huge analytic datasets. We also offer strong integration with dbt for data transformation, support for Modin to scale pandas workflows, empower data application development with Streamlit and creation of the Open Semantic Interchange, a common semantic standard for AI-enabled data products and analytics. Snowflake also integrates with tools like Apache NiFi for data ingestion.
