
What Is Snowflake? Architecture, Features, and Best Practices
TL;DR Snowflake is a cloud data platform that separates storage from compute, which is the design choice behind most of what makes it different: independent scaling, per-second billing, and zero-copy cloning. This guide covers how the three-layer architecture works, the capabilities enterprise teams actually use such as Cortex, Iceberg tables, and dynamic tables, how engineering and governance work on the











