Yeah, that would be my answer as well. I actually forgot to mention that - Snowflake and the like store data away from compute so no matter how you misconfigure clusters (though Snowflake isn't really that configurable) the data is safe. Messing up database that stores data locally means the data is gone - and that makes all operations like resizes and upgrades much more scary.

But of course the local storage is much faster. Tradeoffs.

I know ClickHouse Cloud uses S3 as well, but I don't know much about it, so I don't want to comment on it.

ClickHouse supports separate compute and storage too. I was using it to query data in object storage the other week.

> Self managing storage is never easy to configure, especially not when it's storage that you want to access in a timely manner

Signing for cloud infra also adds lots of complexity and risks.