K, I'm seeing the crux of your contention. Seems to either revolving around the idea of using cloud services in general, or specifically using S3 (or any blob s

K, I'm seeing the crux of your contention. Seems to either revolving around the idea of using cloud services in general, or specifically using S3 (or any blob storage) as your data substrate. That's fair. Out of curiosity, what are you suggesting one should use to store and access vast amounts of data in a cheap and efficient manner? Regarding using something like Snowflake as your operational database, I'm not sure anyone would do that. Transactional workloads would grind to halt and that's called out all the time in their documentation. The only thing close to such a suggestion probably won't be seen until Snowflake releases their Hybrid (OLTP) tables.