Congrats Snowflake, this is a nice feature that takes advantage of pure separation of storage and compute.
Google BigQuery has had this feature since 2012, and to see this in action take a look at Google's Public Datasets [0]. Only difference, you don't need to "stand up a BigQuery" cluster to leverage the data yourself since BigQuery is serverless. BigQuery also has a nice perpetual storage tier, 10GB of storage and 1TB of analysis for free.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 14.3 ms ] threadGoogle BigQuery has had this feature since 2012, and to see this in action take a look at Google's Public Datasets [0]. Only difference, you don't need to "stand up a BigQuery" cluster to leverage the data yourself since BigQuery is serverless. BigQuery also has a nice perpetual storage tier, 10GB of storage and 1TB of analysis for free.
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[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/