Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by sandGorgon on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:01AM
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no this is not free. Because what you would do is setup a "peering" between Snowflake cluster and your own. Even if it is the same region, there is a cost - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/vpc-peering-b...
That cost acts as a barrier if AWS launches its own Snowflake competitor. Basically AWS taxes you for not using other AWS services, once you are inside AWS.
Snowflake actually has historically run as a multinenant service with access to say your S3 bucket, so the majority of data transfer is VM <=> S3 in the same Region (so included/free).
As a snowflake customer, you would submit queries (and data ingestion) as Egress pricing (roughly $.01/GB though assuming it was using the private link or similar) and then the smallish results come back as Ingress (which AWS charges for, we do not, but whatever).
I hope someone corrects me on the AWS side (I really thought that there was a way to do zero rating for same “AZ” third-party services), but it’s not fundamental.