Snowflake pricing in Africa (Cape Town)
In AWS Africa (Cape Town), the region the cloud calls af-south-1, a Snowflake credit costs $2.80 on Standard, $4.20 on Enterprise and $5.60 on Business Critical, and storage $27.40 a TB a month. A Medium Gen1 warehouse costs $16.80 an hour there on Enterprise.
AWS · af-south-1
A credit, storage and transfer
- Standard
- $2.80
- A credit
- Enterprise
- $4.20
- A credit
- Business Critical
- $5.60
- A credit
- Storage
- $27.40
- A TB a month
- To AWS
- $147
- A TB to another region
- To the internet
- $154
- A TB to another cloud
Each warehouse size an hour
Gen1 standard warehouses, for 1 cluster: Africa (Cape Town) has no Gen2.
Every AWS region
A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.
- US East (Northern Virginia)us-east-1, $3.00 a credit
- US East 2 (Ohio)us-east-2, $3.00 a credit
- US West (Oregon)us-west-2, $3.00 a credit
- AP Mumbaiap-south-1, $3.00 a credit
- Canada Centralca-central-1, $3.50 a credit
- Europe (Stockholm)eu-north-1, $3.60 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)ap-southeast-5, $3.60 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)ap-southeast-7, $3.60 a credit
- AP Singaporeap-southeast-1, $3.70 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)ap-southeast-3, $3.70 a credit
- EU (Paris)eu-west-3, $3.90 a credit
- EU Dublineu-west-1, $3.90 a credit
- EU Frankfurteu-central-1, $3.90 a credit
- Europe (London)eu-west-2, $4.00 a credit
- Middle East (UAE)me-central-1, $4.00 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2, $4.05 a credit
- AP Sydneyap-southeast-2, $4.05 a credit
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)ap-southeast-6, $4.05 a credit
- Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1, $4.20 a credit
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1, $4.30 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3, $4.30 a credit
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)sa-east-1, $4.65 a credit
- EU (Zurich)eu-central-2, $4.65 a credit
Questions
- How much does a Snowflake credit cost in Africa (Cape Town)?
- On demand, a credit in AWS Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1) costs $2.80 on Standard, $4.20 on Enterprise and $5.60 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
- How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in Africa (Cape Town)?
- On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen1 warehouse costs $4.20 an hour for 1 credit credits, and a Medium $16.80 for 4, each size up doubling the price. Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, a Medium costs $1,848 a month.
- How much does Snowflake storage cost in Africa (Cape Town)?
- $27.40 a TB a month on demand, for the compressed data Snowflake stores, including the copies kept for Time Travel and Fail-safe. Files staged for loading count too.
- How much does Snowflake charge for data transfer out of Africa (Cape Town)?
- Moving a TB to another AWS region costs $147, and to another cloud or the internet $154. Loading data in, and moving it within Africa (Cape Town), is free.
- Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in Africa (Cape Town)?
- No. Africa (Cape Town) offers Gen1 standard warehouses, so a Medium uses 4 credits an hour there. Snowflake's price list gives no Gen2 warehouse for this region.
- Is Africa (Cape Town) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on AWS?
- No. A credit on Enterprise costs $4.20 in Africa (Cape Town), 40 percent more than the $3.00 of the cheapest AWS regions, such as US East (Northern Virginia), US East 2 (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and 1 more. A warehouse there uses the same credits, so the hour costs 40 percent more in Africa (Cape Town).
Sources
Where each fact comes from
- 1Snowflake: pricing calculator
- 2Snowflake: Service Consumption Table (credits of each warehouse, credit, storage and transfer prices, serverless rates)
- 3Snowflake documentation: supported cloud regions (the cloud code of each region)
- 4Snowflake documentation: Snowflake editions
- 5Snowflake documentation: understanding storage cost
- 6Snowflake documentation: understanding data transfer cost
- 7Snowflake documentation: Gen2 standard warehouses
- 8Databricks: pricing on AWS (the price of a DBU for each kind of compute and plan)
- 9Microsoft: Azure Databricks pricing
- 10Databricks: pricing on Google Cloud