Snowflake FinOps: The Compute Credit Trap and How to Stop It

Snowflake FinOps: The Compute Credit Trap and How to Stop It A LARGE Snowflake warehouse left running 24/7 costs $11,520 per month on AWS Standard Edition, per the Snowflake pricing documentation . Multiply that by the four warehouses a typical data team runs (ETL, dashboards, ad-hoc, ML feature pipelines) and you are at $46,080 per month before storage, before reservations, before anyone has tuned a single query. Most teams pay this number and assume it is the cost of doing data warehousing at