It is a neutral 3rd party vendor so no cloud lockin Polished interface and standard SQL interface No hand optimisation required, data stored in efficient prop

It is a neutral 3rd party vendor so no cloud lockin Polished interface and standard SQL interface No hand optimisation required, data stored in efficient proprietary storage Compute optimization managed by snowflake, manage it's own pools. Seamless sharing or replication of data All of these are easily replicable by competitors, but it also has the closed garden network effect.