This document discusses Snowflake, a cloud data platform. It describes Snowflake's mission to enable organizations to be data-driven. It outlines problems with traditional data architectures like complexity, limited scalability, inability to consolidate data, and rigid costs. Snowflake's solution is a cloud-native data warehouse delivered as a service that offers instant elasticity, end-to-end security, and the ability to query structured and semi-structured data using SQL. Key benefits of Snowflake include supporting any scale of data, users and workloads; paying only for resources used; and providing simplicity, scalability, flexibility and elasticity.

1. SNOWFLAKE
YOUR DATA. NO LIMITS.

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OUR MISSION
ENABLE EVERY ORGANISATION
TO BE DATA-DRIVEN

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THE PROBLEMS WE SAW
Complexity
Cumbersome
and time-
consuming
Limited
Scalability
Can’t support
all data, users
and workloads
Diversity
Unable to
consolidate
siloed datasets
Inadequate
Elasticity
Stuck with
rigid, inflexible
architectures
Rigid
Cost
Forced to
keep the lights
on 24/7

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THE SOLUTION WE BUILT
Built for
the cloud
SQL Data
Warehouse
Delivered as
a service

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Traditional Architectures Snowflake
Shared storage
Single cluster
Shared-disk
Decentralised, distributed
storage
Single cluster
Shared-nothing Multi-cluster, shared data
Centralised, scale-out storage
Multiple, independent compute clusters
A BRAND NEW ARCHITECTURE

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END-TO-END SECURITY
Authentication
• Embedded multi-factor
authentication
• Federated authentication
available
X
…
.
X
Access control
• Role-based access control
model
• Granular privileges on all
objects & actions
Data encryption
• All data encrypted, always,
end-to-end
• Encryption keys managed
automatically
• Customer-managed keys
External validation
Certified against enterprise-class
requirements
• SOC 2 Type II
• HIPAA
• PCI
• FedRamp
Built-in enterprise grade security controls

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ETL/ELT
snowpipe
XS
S
M
M
L
Sales
Data
Science
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
S
AWS Glue

9. INSTANT ELASTICITY

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ETL/ELT
snowpipe
XS M
Sales
Data
Science
XLS
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

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ETL/ELT
snowpipe
XS M
Sales
Data
Science
M…
XL
Multi-cluster
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

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ETL/ELT
Snowpipe
XS M
Sales
Data
Science
M…
XL
Multi-cluster
Structured &
semi-structured
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

15. QUERY JSON WITH SQL
Apple 101.12 250 FIH-2316
Pear 56.22 202 IHO-6912
Orange 98.21 600 WHQ-6090
Structured data
(CSV)
Semi-structured data
(e.g. JSON, Avro, XML)
{ "firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Smith",
"height_cm": 167.64,
"address": {
"streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
"city": "New York",
"state": "NY",
"postalCode": "10021-3100"
},
"phoneNumbers": [
{ "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
{ "type": "office", "number": "646 555-4567" }
]
}
select v:lastName::string as last_name
from json_demo;
All Your Data!

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ETL/ELT
Snowpipe
XS
S
M
Sales
Data
Science
M…
Test/Dev
Clone
XL
Multi-cluster
Structured &
semi-structured
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

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Zero-copy data cloning
Instant data cloning operations
• Databases and tables
• Metadata-only operation
• No data copying required
Modified data stored as new blocks
• Unmodified data stored only once
…CLONE…
…CLONE…

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ETL/ELT
Snowpipe
XS
S
M
L
Finance
Sales
Data
Science
M…
Test/Dev
Clone
Data protection
& time travel
XL
Multi-cluster
Structured &
semi-structured
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

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COMPREHENSIVE DATA PROTECTION
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Protection against infrastructure failures
All data transparently & synchronously replicated 3+ ways
across independent infrastructure
Long-term data protection
Zero-copy clones + optional export to cloud object storage
enable user-managed data copies
Protection against corruption & user errors
“Time travel” feature enables instant roll-back to any point
in time during chosen retention window

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ETL/ELT
Snowpipe
XS
S
M
M
L
External
Finance
Sales
Data
Science
M…
Test/Dev
Clone
Share
Data protection
& time travel
XL
Multi-cluster
Structured &
semi-structured
Global Services
Transactional Control
Security
Query Planning & Optimisation
Logical Model
AWS QuickSight
AWS Glue

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SHARING DATA TODAY

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DATA SHARING WITH SNOWFLAKE
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Data Providers Data Consumers
No data movement
Share with unlimited number
of consumers Live access
Data consumers immediately
see all updates
Ready to use
Consumers can immediately
start querying

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What Customers are doing with Snowflake
Share live data
with clients
BI, ANALYTICS &
APPLICATIONS
DATA SOURCES
DATA MARTS
& EXTRACTS
STAGING
DATA LAKE
DATA
WAREHOUSE

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What Customers are doing with Snowflake
Consolidate
data silos to
reduce cost &
complexity
Replace NoSQL
data lakes for
simpler, faster
data exploration
Modernize data
warehouse to
deliver fast,
scalable BI
and analytics Share live data
with clients
BI, ANALYTICS &
APPLICATIONS
DATA SOURCES

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Diversity
One place for
all your data
Scalability
Any scale of
data, users and
workloads
Flexible
Cost
Pay for what
you use, when
you use it
Simplicity
Simple,
serverless,
plug-and-play
Elasticity
Size for what
you need
right now
WHY SNOWFLAKE?

26. THANK YOU