专题演讲嘉宾：Jiaqi Yan

The Snowflake Data Cloud is a new type of cloud dedicated to data analytics, built on top of the infrastructure provided by the three major cloud providers, namely Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. In this talk, I will give an overview of the Snowflake cloud data platform, highlighting how we leverage the cloud to make Snowflake infinitely scalable, elastic, global, collaborative, and extremely simple to use. In particular, we will show that this is made possible by our multi-cluster shared-data architecture. This novel architecture, specifically designed for the cloud, allows unlimited and independent scaling of both compute and storage, with instant elasticity along both dimensions. The Snowflake cloud data platform is globally distributed, making it one single multi-tenant platform for the world. This enables collaboration between tenants, for example allowing one tenant, a provider, to share a secure view of a database with one or more tenants, referred to as consumers. Our multi-cluster shared-data architecture enables live data sharing without the need to share any compute resources, resulting in full isolation between providers and consumers.