Snowflake is a data platform built for the cloud. Fundamentally, this should not be a concern, because Snowflake’s superb analytical capabilities likely deliver a positive return on your investment.
With data replication, following an initial load, you keep a copy of data in Snowflake up-to-date using Change Data Capture (CDC) on the source(s).
At its core, three components make up the Snowflake Data Cloud: These core architectural components enabled Snowflake to become a reliable and scalable data storage and processing service.
Customers buy credits to pay for compute and cloud service charges, and for the use of serverless features.