Snowflake

What it does

Snowflake is a fully managed cloud service for data and AI work. It covers ingesting and processing data, analyzing and modeling it, and building and sharing data and AI applications. It runs across data types and clouds with unified security and governance.

Snowflake is a fully managed service for data and AI work. The platform covers data engineering, analytics, AI, applications and collaboration, and transactions. It is built to be connected across data types and clouds, with unified security, governance, observability and disaster recovery. Pricing uses a consumption-based model, and the pricing page lists editions from Standard up to Virtual Private Snowflake. Higher editions add multi-cluster compute, granular governance and privacy controls, Tri-Secret Secure, private connectivity, and failover and failback for disaster recovery. Storage is billed monthly based on average compressed data stored, and the service can be bought on-demand or as pre-paid capacity. The homepage does not state whether a free plan, an API, or open source licensing applies, so those remain unknown. The pricing page shows a start for free link, but it does not describe a free plan, so no free plan is claimed here.