FEATURE
Snowflake Well-Architected Framework
The Snowflake Well-Architected Framework is a framework for best practices to build secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient systems. It helps accelerate data and AI innovations by providing guidelines for evaluating architectures and implementing scalable solutions based on five pillars: security and governance, operational excellence, reliability, performance and cost optimization.
Five Pillars of the Snowflake Well-Architected Framework

Security & Governance
Implement robust controls and a foundation to protect your Snowflake Organizations and Accounts.
Operational Excellence
Establish reliable, continuously improving systems leveraging deep observability and automation to proactively control cost, risk, and performance to accelerate innovation.
Reliability
Help ensure systems run correctly, recover from failures, and adapt to change by focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and data protection.
Performance
Streamline operations, enhance user experience and improve business value by achieving highly responsive and cost-optimized data workloads.
Cost Optimization
Optimize cloud spending, gain clear visibility into expenses, improve ROI for your business growth, and promote continuous improvements.