Snowflake pricing in UK South (London)
In Azure UK South (London), the region the cloud calls uksouth, a Snowflake credit costs $2.70 on Standard, $4.00 on Enterprise and $5.40 on Business Critical, and storage $24.00 a TB a month. A Medium Gen2 warehouse costs $20.00 an hour there on Enterprise.
Azure · uksouth
A credit, storage and transfer
- Standard
- $2.70
- A credit
- Enterprise
- $4.00
- A credit
- Business Critical
- $5.40
- A credit
- Storage
- $24.00
- A TB a month
- To Azure
- $20.00
- A TB to another region
- To the internet
- $87.50
- A TB to another cloud
Each warehouse size an hour
Gen2 standard warehouses up to 4X-Large, Gen1 above, for 1 cluster.
| Size | Credits | Standard | Enterprise | Business Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-Small | 1.25 | $3.38 | $5.00 | $6.75 |
| Small | 2.5 | $6.75 | $10.00 | $13.50 |
| Medium | 5 | $13.50 | $20.00 | $27.00 |
| Large | 10 | $27.00 | $40.00 | $54.00 |
| X-Large | 20 | $54.00 | $80.00 | $108 |
| 2X-Large | 40 | $108 | $160 | $216 |
| 3X-Large | 80 | $216 | $320 | $432 |
| 4X-Large | 160 | $432 | $640 | $864 |
| 5X-LargeGen1 | 256 | $691 | $1,024 | $1,382 |
| 6X-LargeGen1 | 512 | $1,382 | $2,048 | $2,765 |
Every Azure region
A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.
- East US 2 (Virginia)eastus2, $3.00 a credit
- Central US (Iowa)centralus, $3.00 a credit
- East USeastus, $3.00 a credit
- Mexico Centralmexicocentral, $3.00 a credit
- South Central US (Texas)southcentralus, $3.00 a credit
- West US 2 (Washington)westus2, $3.00 a credit
- Central India (Pune)centralindia, $3.00 a credit
- Canada Central (Toronto)canadacentral, $3.50 a credit
- Sweden Centralswedencentral, $3.60 a credit
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)southeastasia, $3.70 a credit
- North Europe (Ireland)northeurope, $3.90 a credit
- West Europe (Netherlands)westeurope, $3.90 a credit
- UK South (London)uksouth, $4.00 a credit
- UAE North (Dubai)uaenorth, $4.00 a credit
- Korea Centralkoreacentral, $4.05 a credit
- Australia East (New South Wales)australiaeast, $4.05 a credit
- Japan East (Tokyo)japaneast, $4.30 a credit
- Switzerland Northswitzerlandnorth, $4.65 a credit
Questions
- How much does a Snowflake credit cost in UK South (London)?
- On demand, a credit in Azure UK South (London) (uksouth) costs $2.70 on Standard, $4.00 on Enterprise and $5.40 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
- How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in UK South (London)?
- On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen2 warehouse costs $5.00 an hour for 1.25 credits credits, and a Medium $20.00 for 5, each size up doubling the price. Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, a Medium costs $2,200 a month.
- How much does Snowflake storage cost in UK South (London)?
- $24.00 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 UK South (London)?
- Moving a TB to another Azure region costs $20.00, and to another cloud or the internet $87.50. Loading data in, and moving it within UK South (London), is free.
- Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in UK South (London)?
- Yes. Gen2 standard warehouses run in UK South (London), at more credits an hour than Gen1 on faster hardware: a Medium uses 5 credits an hour. Gen1 warehouses are sold there too.
- Is UK South (London) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on Azure?
- No. A credit on Enterprise costs $4.00 in UK South (London), 33 percent more than the $3.00 of the cheapest Azure regions, such as East US 2 (Virginia), Central US (Iowa), East US and 4 more. A warehouse there uses the same credits, so the hour costs 33 percent more in UK South (London).
- Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in UK South (London)?
- At the same speed, a Medium Snowflake warehouse costs $2,200 a month for the example's queries and a Medium Databricks serverless SQL warehouse $2,508, at $0.95 a DBU in UK South. A size name is not a speed, so run your own queries on each before choosing.
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