Snowflake Cost Optimization Series

Hello All! Thanks for reading my earlier Snowflake blog series on Data Governance and Architecting data workloads with Snowflake. If you havent read the earlier blogs then you can subscribe to my medium and read earlier blogs in the series.

I am glad to start a new series on Snowflake cost optimization. This series consist of below topics and help you to learn more about the costing model, optimization techniques etc.

1. Understanding Snowflake Cost
2. Warehouse Cost Optimization
3. Understanding Snowflake Optimization services
4. Implementing Snowflake’s Cost Optimization techniques
5. Implement Cost Monitoring & Alerting using Snowsight

Snowflake’s costing model is very transparent and easy to understand. You will be charged only for the services being used and only for the time they are up and running. You need to understand Snowflake’s architecture — three layered architecture and their features to understand the costing model well. You can refer to my earlier blogs to understand some of the foundational concepts, features required for the cost series.

Snowflake Architecture

1. Read — https://medium.com/@poojakelgaonkar/snowflake-data-on-cloud-cf3898fee3d0 to understand Snowflake architecture components and their features, usage.

2. Read — https://medium.com/snowflake/building-dashboards-using-snowsight-daacf4bd42a8 to understand Snowsight and dashboarding feature.

3. Read — https://medium.com/@poojakelgaonkar/setting-up-alerting-for-snowflake-data-platform-8b67863eeb07 to know more about Snowflake’s alerting feature.

This series will help you to understand the Snowflake’s costing model, optimization techniques, services that can be used to improve the performance optimizations, costing of serverless services, designing and implementing appropriate cost monitoring and alerts to avoid any unprecdicted cost to the account.

Please follow my blog series on Snowflake topics to understand various aspects of data design, engineering, data governance, cost optimizations etc.

About Me :

I am one of the Snowflake Data Superheroes 2023. I am also one of the Snowflake SnowPro Core SME- Certification Program. I am a DWBI and Cloud Architect! I am currently working as Senior Data Architect — GCP, Snowflake. I have been working with various Legacy data warehouses, Bigdata Implementations, and Cloud platforms/Migrations. I am SnowPro Core certified Data Architect as well as Google certified Google Professional Cloud Architect. You can reach out to me LinkedIn if you need any further help on certification, Data Solutions, and Implementations!