Snowflake pricing in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)
In Google Cloud Middle East Central 2 (Dammam), the region the cloud calls me-central2, a Snowflake credit costs $3.25 on Standard, $4.90 on Enterprise and $6.50 on Business Critical, and storage $30.00 a TB a month. A Medium Gen1 warehouse costs $19.60 an hour there on Enterprise.
Google Cloud · me-central2
A credit, storage and transfer
- Standard
- $3.25
- A credit
- Enterprise
- $4.90
- A credit
- Business Critical
- $6.50
- A credit
- Storage
- $30.00
- A TB a month
- To Google Cloud
- $80.00
- A TB to another region
- To the internet
- $190
- A TB to another cloud
Each warehouse size an hour
Gen1 standard warehouses, for 1 cluster: Middle East Central 2 (Dammam) has no Gen2.
Every Google Cloud region
A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.
- US Central 1 (Iowa)us-central1, $3.00 a credit
- US East 4 (N. Virginia)us-east4, $3.00 a credit
- Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)europe-west3, $3.90 a credit
- Europe West 4 (Netherlands)europe-west4, $3.90 a credit
- Europe West 2 (London)europe-west2, $4.00 a credit
- Australia Southeast 2 (Melbourne)australia-southeast2, $4.05 a credit
- Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)me-central2, $4.90 a credit
Questions
- How much does a Snowflake credit cost in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- On demand, a credit in Google Cloud Middle East Central 2 (Dammam) (me-central2) costs $3.25 on Standard, $4.90 on Enterprise and $6.50 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
- How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen1 warehouse costs $4.90 an hour for 1 credit credits, and a Medium $19.60 for 4, each size up doubling the price. Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, a Medium costs $2,156 a month.
- How much does Snowflake storage cost in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- $30.00 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 Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- Moving a TB to another Google Cloud region costs $80.00, and to another cloud or the internet $190. Loading data in, and moving it within Middle East Central 2 (Dammam), is free.
- Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- No. Middle East Central 2 (Dammam) 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 Middle East Central 2 (Dammam) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on Google Cloud?
- No. A credit on Enterprise costs $4.90 in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam), 63 percent more than the $3.00 of the cheapest Google Cloud regions, such as US Central 1 (Iowa) and US East 4 (N. Virginia). A warehouse there uses the same credits, so the hour costs 63 percent more in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam).
- Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)?
- At the same speed, a Medium Snowflake warehouse costs $2,156 a month for the example's queries and a Medium Databricks serverless SQL warehouse $3,062, at $1.16 a DBU in Dammam (me-central2). 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