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Use Case
Data Engineering for lakehouse
Conquer data complexity with an AI-ready data lakehouse that accesses data from nearly anywhere — regardless of catalog — to power your pipelines in a fully managed platform.
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LEADERS POWER THEIR
LAKEHOUSE WITH SNOWFLAKE
Streamline pipelines
Scale your pipelines — not your cost — with automated and declarative tools that manage the infrastructure for you.
Govern for AI
Unlock enterprise AI with a unified governance framework that provides built-in security, quality and discovery capabilities across your entire data estate.
Connect any data
Build a single, governed view of your data estate by connecting all existing and new data with flexibility and improved economics.
Streamline pipelines
Scale your pipelines — not your cost — with automated and declarative tools that manage the infrastructure for you.
Govern for AI
Unlock enterprise AI with a unified governance framework that provides built-in security, quality and discovery capabilities across your entire data estate.
Connect any data
Build a single, governed view of your data estate by connecting all existing and new data with flexibility and improved economics.
Streamline pipelines
Scale your pipelines — not your cost — with automated and declarative tools that manage the infrastructure for you.
Connect any data
Build a single, governed view of your data estate
Connect to existing data with instant access to Iceberg tables in other catalogs (like AWS Glue) and open formats (such as Delta Lake and Parquet files) — all without moving data.
Ingest new data efficiently by streaming or batch loading any data type with Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming, or Openflow for 50%+ cost efficiency1.
- Enrich with external knowledge by adding unstructured data or ready-to-query third-party sources to your platform using Snowflake Cortex AI.
Streamline pipelines
Scale your pipelines — not your cost
Shift your existing Apache Spark code directly onto Snowflake's engine using Snowpark Connect to reduce your TCO by 30–50%2.
Build pipelines declaratively, defining the data's end state and letting Snowflake handle the orchestration, scheduling and updates.
Deliver on your SLAs thanks to fast, reliable performance for virtually all users and jobs — without tuning or contention — delivered through isolated and elastic compute.
Govern for AI
Secure, govern and discover data from anywhere in a single pane of glass
Automate access control, defining a policy once with role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC), then enforcing it consistently wherever the data lives.
Use customizable quality controls and proactive alerts to monitor the health of your data pipelines and help ensure only trusted data is delivered.
- Accelerate data discovery for AI by automatically generating data dictionaries and gleaning business context from existing assets, allowing both teams and AI agents to find, understand and use the right data with confidence.
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Data Engineering Leaders Using Snowflake for Lakehouse
Affirm Achieves Data Sovereignty and Improves Performance
Affirm turned to Snowflake for its financial workloads to enhance operational efficiency and performance — without compromising flexibility and choice.
- 66% Faster SLAs, enhancing data freshness
- 6X Lower monthly costs for replication pipeline
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