Snowflake has skyrocketed in popularity over the past 5 years and firmly planted itself at the center of many companies' data stacks. Snowflake came into existe

Snowflake has skyrocketed in popularity over the past 5 years and firmly planted itself at the center of many companies' data stacks. Snowflake came into existence in 2012 with a unique architecture, described in their seminal white paper as "the elastic data warehouse". Rather than have compute and storage coupled on the same machine like their competitors did, they proposed a new design that took advantage of the near-infinite resources available in cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, we'll dive into the three layers of Snowflake's data warehouse architecture: cloud services, compute and storage.