Question

A data provider on Snowflake runs in AWS us-east-1 and has created a direct share containing several secure views. A prospective consumer runs their Snowflake account in Azure West Europe. The provider wants to share the data with this consumer with the least ongoing management overhead while ensuring the data remains accessible. What must the provider do to enable this cross-cloud, cross-region sharing?

Accepted Answer

Set up database replication to a secondary database in an account located in the consumer's region/cloud, then create and share from that replicated database (or use an auto-fulfillment listing).

Answer

Nothing special — direct shares automatically work across any cloud and region because sharing does not copy data.

Answer

Create a reader account for the consumer so they can access the share without their own Snowflake account.

Answer

Export the secure views to an external stage in Azure and grant the consumer access to the stage.