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.
> 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.
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.