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snowflake-ai-data-cloud-features-and-architecture

What are the three layers of Snowflake's architecture and what does each layer handle?

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Cloud services layer (authentication, query optimization, metadata, access control), compute layer (virtual warehouses that execute queries and DML), and storage layer (centralized compressed columnar micro-partitions in cloud object storage). Each layer scales independently.

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