Question

A data provider on AWS US-East-1 has published a listing on the Snowflake Marketplace. A prospective consumer runs their Snowflake account on Azure West Europe and wants to query the shared dataset. The provider does not want the consumer's queries to incur any compute charges on the provider's account. Which statement correctly describes what must happen for this cross-cloud collaboration to work and who bears the compute cost?

Accepted Answer

The provider must replicate the shared database to a Snowflake account in Azure West Europe (or use auto-fulfillment), and the consumer's own virtual warehouse pays for the query compute.

Answer

Direct sharing works across clouds and regions with no replication, and the provider's warehouse is billed for consumer queries.

Answer

The consumer must create a reader account under the provider, and the provider is billed for all compute the reader consumes.

Answer

Cross-cloud sharing is not supported on the Marketplace; the consumer must migrate their account to AWS US-East-1 first.