SNOWFLAKE-EDI
Multi-cloud SaaS data cloud.
Definition
Snowflake supports Snowpipe (streaming ingestion), Iceberg tables, Dynamic Tables, Cortex AI. Multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure). Pricing by compute warehouse + storage. EDI usage: parsing in Lambda → S3 → Snowpipe → silver/gold tables.
Origin
Founded 2012 ; NYSE IPO September 2020 (largest software IPO in history).
Example in context
An EDI hub loads 10M invoices/day into Snowflake via Snowpipe — Looker dashboards downstream.
Related terms
- dbt — transformations.