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Snowflake Adaptive Compute: a bill owner's guide
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query billed warehouse compute with 2 tuning knobs. Use it when tuning costs more than control.
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4 stories tagged finops.
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Snowflake Adaptive Compute rewrites warehouse sizing
Snowflake Adaptive Compute is query-billed warehouse compute. Its default XLARGE cap and multiplier 2 force FinOps teams to retest sizing.
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Snowflake Gen2 warehouses: faster compute you have to opt into
Snowflake Gen2 standard warehouses run on faster hardware and finish most queries quicker, but they bill at a higher credit rate and you often have to switch with a SQL clause. Whether they save money depends entirely on whether the speedup beats the rate.
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Snowflake warehouse sizing: stop paying for idle compute
Snowflake warehouse sizing sets your credit burn: each size up doubles credits per hour, so a 4XL costs 128 credits per hour against an XS at 1. Right-size by workload, not by habit.