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Cloud data warehouses: Snowflake

Cloud data warehouses: Snowflake

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Cloud data warehouses: Snowflake

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- [Instructor] Cloud data warehouses are becoming increasingly popular among businesses due to their ability to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and highly available solution for storing and processing large volumes of data. A cloud data warehouse is a type of data warehouse that is hosted on a cloud platform, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. One of the primary benefits of cloud data warehouses is their ability to scale dynamically. With traditional on-premises data warehouses, scaling up or down can be a time-consuming and costly process. Cloud data warehouses, on the other hand, can easily scale up or down based on demand, allowing businesses to pay only for the resources they need at any given time. Another benefit is their ease of use. Cloud data warehouses typically offer a range of tools and features that make it easy to ingest, transform, and analyze data, even for users…

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