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It is fair to critize that some workloads on Snowflake are expensive.

What I found however is that Snowflake is indeed super cheap if we look at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Compared with other cloud data warehouses it is even easy for to cost control (warehouse size with autosuspend and resource monitors).

I work with many Snowflake customers and the biggest cost they are concerned with is usually training users so they don't shoot themselves (wrong joins, external programs "pinging" the service, ...).

Snowflake is mainly expensive because of usage, not because of bad query optimization.

(Co-Founder at https://www.sled.so/)