Question

A data provider publishes a free public listing on the Snowflake Marketplace from their account in AWS US East. A prospective consumer running a Snowflake account in Azure West Europe wants to access the listed dataset with the lowest ongoing effort and no data copying on the provider's side. What must happen for the consumer to successfully query this listing's data?

Accepted Answer

The provider must enable auto-fulfillment (cross-cloud auto-fulfillment) so Snowflake automatically replicates the listing's data to the consumer's region when it is requested.

Answer

The consumer must create a reader account in AWS US East and query the data from there, since Marketplace listings cannot cross cloud regions.

Answer

The provider must manually export the dataset to external cloud storage and grant the consumer a storage integration to load it.

Answer

The consumer can query the shared database directly because Marketplace listings are globally accessible in all regions without any replication.