Road to Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification: Pricing
Third Chapter: Snowflake Pricing
In this chapter, we will study in detail Snowflake pricing, the different capacity options, and the exam preparation part with the typical questions that usually appear in the Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification about pricing:
Remember that all the chapters from the course can be found in the following link.
COSTS IN SNOWFLAKE
Snowflake pricing and cost are based on the actual usage. You pay for what you use and scale storage and compute independently. This is important; we will be charged individually for the computing and storage. Let’s see the price of each layer in detail.
Storage Costs
All customers are charged a monthly fee for the data they store in Snowflake. Storage cost is measured using the average amount of storage used per month, after compression, for all customer data stored in Snowflake. This question appears typically in the exam; remember that it’s the average amount after compression.
