Question

A retail analytics company creates a direct share containing a secure view and grants it to a partner's Snowflake account in the same region. The partner immediately begins querying the shared data. The provider's data engineering lead is asked how storage is billed for this arrangement. Which statement correctly describes the storage and data-access behavior of Snowflake Secure Data Sharing?

Accepted Answer

No data is copied to the consumer; the consumer queries the provider's live data and only the provider pays for storage, while the consumer pays for the compute they use.

Answer

The shared data is physically replicated into the consumer account, so the consumer is billed for the duplicated storage.

Answer

Both provider and consumer are billed for a copy of the shared storage, split evenly between the two accounts.

Answer

The consumer receives a nightly snapshot copy of the data and pays for storage of that snapshot in their account.