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by benjaminwootton 1395 days ago
The monthly bill does make me wince, but Snowflake of course includes all server and compute costs, no installation, initial configuration or upgrades etc. It’s genuine SaaS.

It’s also very simple to manage and optimise so less DBA or DevOps type manpower.

Then of course you can perfectly right size your instances and pay by the second for compute and by the byte for storage.

Expensive, but lower TCO than alternate approaches I suspect.
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jeffwask 1395 days ago
Yeah...100%. It's expensive til you try running a data warehouse yourself and have to hire in to support it.

Like any other service there are scale points where it no longer makes sense but for most smaller orgs it's still a bargain over DIY

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nojito 1395 days ago
We did a cost analysis and found databricks and BQ to be cheaper than a similar snowflake build out.

I think people are falling into a trap of not considering costs because “it takes care of everything”.

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dominotw 1395 days ago
> cost analysis and found databricks and BQ to be cheaper than a similar snowflake build out.

Wouldn't this mean snowflake has priced their product not competitively. Why would they do that if its so obvious that everyone would just save money from switching to DB.

> I think people are falling into a trap

This is their product strategy? to take advantage of gullible businesses falling into their trap.

Surely building a whole business around customers falling into trap has to backfire at some point.

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Keyframe 1395 days ago
It’s also very simple to manage and optimise so less DBA or DevOps type manpower.

Then of course you can perfectly right size your instances and pay by the second for compute and by the byte for storage.

These two are connected vessels.

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