Snowflake is a cloud based Software as a Service data platform. Snowflake’s architecture consists of three key layers: Database Storage: When data is loaded into Snowflake, Snowflake reorganizes that data into its internal optimized, compressed, columnar format. Snowflake stores this optimized data in cloud storage. Query Processing: Query execution is performed in the processing layer. Snowflake processes queries using “virtual warehouses”. Each virtual warehouse is an MPP compute cluster composed of multiple compute nodes allocated by Snowflake from a cloud provider. Cloud Services: a collection of services that coordinate activities across Snowflake. Services managed in this layer include: Authentication Infrastructure … Continue reading Networking Snowflake on GCP with Aviatrix