What is Snowflake?
Snowflake offers scalable data warehouse, data lake and data sharing services in the cloud, with an architecture that separates storage and compute. It includes SQL-based analytics, Python development with Snowpark and AI functions with Cortex AI. It runs on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Credit-based usage pricing applies.
Key facts
- Starting price
- Price not listed
- Pricing model
- Usage-based
- Active users
- —
- Customers
- 11K
- Vendor employees
- 7,800
- Launched
- 2014
- Deployment
- Cloud (SaaS)
- Platforms
- Web
Source note: Snowflake reported more than 11,000 customers in its fiscal 2024-2025 reports.
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Separate storage and compute scale independently
- Near-zero maintenance as a fully managed service
- Strong data sharing and multi-cloud support
- Free trial available
Considerations
- Usage-based costs can be hard to predict and control
- Requires governance to avoid runaway warehouse spend
- No on-premise deployment option
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Industries & use cases
Industries served
Typical use cases
- Enterprise data warehouse modernization off legacy appliances
- Secure data sharing with partners and suppliers
- Building LLM applications on governed enterprise data
Typical Deloitte services
- Data platform migration and modernization
- Data governance and operating model design
- AI and analytics use-case development on Snowflake
Editorial profile based on public information.
Features
✓AI features· Automation
✓GDPR compliance· Compliance
✓SOC 2· Compliance
✓ISO 27001· Compliance
✓HIPAA· Compliance
✓API access· Integrations
✓Multi-language· Platform
✓Dashboards· Reporting
✓Single sign-on (SSO)· Security
✓Two-factor authentication· Security
✓Role-based access· Security
✓Audit log· Security
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