Ippon’s Snowflake Tune-Up
Ippon's Snowflake Tune-Up service provides a comprehensive 50-point inspection of your existing Snowflake environment, designed to optimize performance and identify immediate cost-saving opportunities. This expert-led service enhances the efficiency of your Snowflake platform and typically delivers direct savings that significantly surpass the cost of engagement. By leveraging Ippon's expertise, you can ensure that your Snowflake environment operates at peak performance, maximizes your investment, fosters data-driven innovation, and typically pays for itself in weeks!
Where Snowflake Implementations Often Stumble
- Cost/Performance Optimization: Organizations often struggle with inefficient Snowflake configurations, leading to unnecessary expenses and slow query performance.
- Security: Security is paramount in any data environment. Many companies need help implementing best practices for access control (roles, privileges, MFA), network policies, and data protection.
- Reactive Snowflake Management: Effectively managing a Snowflake environment requires proactive monitoring, proper resource allocation, and well-defined processes.
- Untapped Snowflake Potential: Snowflake offers a wealth of features (Materialized Views, Snowpark, Cortex, etc.) that many organizations
How we address these challenges
Cost Optimization
The Tune-Up includes a 50-point inspection to identify areas for immediate cost savings and performance improvements. This covers areas such as table clustering, warehouse sizing, query optimization, and data retention policies. Implementing the recommendations from the resulting detailed report and Query Optimization Workshop typically results in direct savings that surpass the cost of the engagement.
Security Enhancement
This service specifically assesses aspects like MFA implementation (for admins and all users), roles that can grant privileges, the number of admin users, and network policy usage. The Tune-Up identifies vulnerabilities and provides recommendations to strengthen your Snowflake security posture.
Improved System Management
The Tune-Up looks at resource monitors, budgets, alerting (for failed and long-running queries), and job audits. Furthermore, the Pro and Pro Plus packages include Ippon’s Concierge Service, which provides proactive monitoring, mentoring, and ongoing support to ensure smooth operations.
Feature Utilization
Ippon specifically checks for the usage of features like Materialized Views, Snowpark, Search Optimization, and Cortex. The Tune-Up provides tailored recommendations for adopting these features to enhance performance, unlock new capabilities, and maximize the value of your Snowflake investment. Technical workshops are included to provide hands-on training and guidance on leveraging these features effectively.
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