10. Storage & Pricing
Pricing
Differences in unit costs for credits and data storage are calculated by Snowflake Region and not by
cloud platform. For more information about pricing as it pertains to a specific region
18. Data
1. Structured & semi Structured Data (Json, XML, Avro, Parqet)
2. Columnar Storage
3. Compressed Data upto 5 Times
4. 23$/ 1 TB – Storage
19. Advantages of Virtual Warehouse
• Virtual Warehouses can be started or stopped at any time and also can be scaled
at any time without impacting queries that are running.
• They also can be set to auto-suspend or auto-resume so that warehouses are
suspended after a specific period of inactive time and then when a query is
submitted are resumed.
• They can also be set to auto-scale with minimum and maximum cluster size, so
for e.g. we can set minimum 1 and maximum 3 so that depending on the load
Snowflake can provision between 1 to 3 multi-cluster warehouses.
24. Key Features - Security and Data Protection
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• Federated authentication and single sign-on (SSO)
• Oauth
• Data Encryption
