
FinOps for Snowflake
A Guide to Cloud Financial Optimization
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FinOps for Snowflake
A Guide to Cloud Financial Optimization
About this book
Unlock the full financial potential of your Snowflake environment.
Learn how to cut costs, boost performance, and take control of your cloud data spend with FinOps for Snowflake—your essential guide to implementing a smart, automated, and Snowflake-optimized FinOps strategy.
In today’s data-driven world, financial optimization on platforms like Snowflake is more critical than ever. Whether you're just beginning your FinOps journey or refining mature practices, this book provides a practical roadmap to align Snowflake usage with business goals, reduce costs, and improve performance—without compromising agility.
Grounded in real-world case studies and packed with actionable strategies, FinOps for Snowflake shows how leading organizations are transforming their environments through automation, governance, and cost intelligence. You'll learn how to apply proven techniques for architecture tuning, workload and storage efficiency, and performance optimization—empowering you to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
What You Will Learn
- Master FinOps principles tailored for Snowflake’s architecture and pricing model
- Enable collaboration across finance, engineering, and business teams
- Deliver real-time cost insights for smarter decision-making
- Optimize compute, storage, and Snowflake AI and ML services for efficiency
- Leverage Snowflake Cortex AI and Adoptive Warehouse/Compute for intelligent cost governance
- Apply proven strategies to achieve operational excellence and measurable savings
Who this Book is For
Data professionals, cloud engineers, FinOps practitioners, and finance teams seeking to improve cost visibility, operational efficiency, and financial accountability in Snowflake environments.
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Table of contents
- FinOps for Snowflake
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewers
- 1. FinOps for Snowflake
- 2. FinOps Adoption for Snowflake
- 3. Visibility and Transparency
- 4. Taking Control of Your Snowflake Spend
- 5. Compute Optimization Strategies
- 6. Workload Optimization Strategies
- 7. Storage Optimization Strategies
- 8. Data Modeling Optimization Strategies
- 9. Data Load Optimization Strategies
- 10. Cloud Services Optimization Strategies
- 11. Data Availability Optimization Strategies
- 12. Snowflake AI/ML Cost Management
- 13. Whatâs New in Snowflake Cost Optimization
- Index
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