True or False: Snowflake charges additional fees to Data Providers for each Share they create.
True or False: Snowflake charges additional fees to Data Providers for each Share they create.
Snowflake does not charge additional fees to Data Providers for each Share they create. Instead, Data Providers pay for the data they store, and Data Consumers pay for the compute resources consumed when querying the shared data. Since no actual data is copied or additional storage required, creating a Share is a metadata operation that falls under Cloud Services, which generally does not incur direct costs unless usage exceeds a certain threshold.
According to the documentation sited: "The costs for sharing data with Snowflake are minimal and straightforward. Data providers simply pay Snowflake for the data they store, and data consumers pay for the compute resources their queries consume."
https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-sharing-intro According to docs, there is no separate cost to provider for creating the Share. Shared data does not take up any storage in a consumer account and therefore does not contribute to the consumer’s monthly data storage charges. The only charges to consumers are for the compute resources (i.e. virtual warehouses) used to query the shared data. Because no data is copied or exchanged, Secure Data Sharing setup is quick and easy for providers and access to the shared data is near-instantaneous for consumers
No, there is no additional charge. This is because, when you share data, no actual data is copied, so there is no additional storage required and therefore no associated additional cost. Even the process of creating the share and granting privileges for databases and other supported database objects (schemas, UDFs, tables, and views) to a share does not incur any direct cost since these are metadata operations and are thus part of Cloud Services. Snowflake credits are used to pay for the usage of the cloud services that exceeds 10% of the daily usage of the compute resources. Usage for cloud services is charged only if the daily consumption of cloud services exceeds 10% of the daily usage of the compute resources. If data is shared outside the region where the Snowflake account is hosted then will be additional storage costs for replication.
This question is incomplete - it depends if its READER account (on cross cloud platform/non SF platform) or if its on same SF platform (same Cloud) consumer account. For Reader Account billing is on Provider account, for Consumer Account (same SF cloud) - its on Consumer Account
As documentation there are no additional costs for the share
"The costs for sharing data with Snowflake are minimal and straightforward. Data providers simply pay Snowflake for the data they store, and data consumers pay for the compute resources their queries consume."
FALSE. There is no additional cost based on number of shares created instead the charges are based on storage used.
B is correct
Sharing is free as it within Snowflake accounts
No additional cost for share.
There is no extra cost in a share
A is correct
There is ne additional fee for datashare itself
https://community.snowflake.com/s/question/0D50Z00008MpYp8SAF/how-the-cost-for-data-storage-for-data-shared-is-calculated-in-snowflake-data-sharing
B. False
Correct answer:B no additional cost other than storage
B False