Question

A data engineer is reviewing the monthly Snowflake bill and notices unexpectedly high storage charges. The account has several large tables that experience heavy daily churn (many rows inserted and deleted each day), plus long Time Travel retention settings. How does Snowflake calculate the storage cost that appears on the monthly bill?

Accepted Answer

As the average of daily storage snapshots (including active data, Time Travel, and Fail-safe) over the month, billed per terabyte

Answer

As a flat monthly fee based on the maximum table size reached at any point during the billing period

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As the total number of bytes written by all DML statements during the month, regardless of whether data was later deleted

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As the compute credits consumed by queries that scanned the storage during the month