Facing high Snowflake costs? Check out our practitioner's five-point checklist to reduce Snowflake costs and optimize your data warehouse usage.

How to reduce Snowflake costs: A five-point checklist

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Facing high Snowflake costs? Check out our practitioner's five-point checklist to reduce Snowflake costs and optimize your data warehouse usage.

Snowflake is an incredibly powerful and scalable data warehouse, but without proper management, your costs can skyrocket and get out of control. In this checklist, we will explore five key strategies for optimizing Snowflake costs, ensuring that your data warehouse remains efficient and cost-effective.

Auto-Suspend is a Snowflake feature that allows your warehouse to automatically suspend itself after a specified period of inactivity. This helps to reduce costs by preventing unnecessary credit usage when the warehouse is not in use.

The default auto-suspend value is 10 minutes, but this is often too long for many workloads. For example, if a query lasts 20 seconds, the warehouse will still be charged for 10 minutes of usage, leading to unnecessary costs.

The <span class="code-exp">auto_suspend</span> column specifies how long a running warehouse can remain inactive, in seconds, before automatically suspending and stopping credit usage. A <span class="code-exp">null</span> value means that the warehouse will never automatically suspend. You’ll want to avoid having any warehouse with a <span class="code-exp">null</span> auto-suspend. Typically, <span class="code-exp">60</span> , meaning an auto-suspend of a minute is a good place to start.

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