Do you think cost of cloud data warehouse is a problem?
We are moving from the traditional data stack to the modern data stack which is CDW-centric. Since more and more ad-hoc data works are running on CDW. Do you think cost is a critical issue for using CDW?
you will need to manage the usage very carefully in order to keep cost in check. Specifically for Snowflake, here are some notes that might help you. - Compute costs will be more than 90% of your total bill when you just get started. Storage is very cheap ( $40 -$46 per TB per month) - It is very easy for the compute bill to exponentially rise if you scale up the processors (virtual warehouses in snowflake) ( each increment in scaling up is at least double from current size. for example - XS to S size will be 2x) ( you can limit user's ability to scale up, you could limit user's ability to create new virtual warehouses, you can keep a monitor on the usage and automatically stop if a threshold reaches) - If you have data in the range of few 10s of GBs - XS size of warehouse should suffice for processing - and even if you consider 5-8 hours of on time each day - you're looking at approx. $450 (compute and storage combined)Please reach out to me here or hit me an email on bhavikvadhia@gmail.com - and I can provide you with a more accurate estimate based on your use case. Hope the above helps. - Edited