What is a Managed Warehouse?

Data Warehousing as a Service (DWaaS) is an outsourcing model in which an outside vendor configures and manages the hardware and software resources required for a data warehouse. Customers, in turn, provide the data and pay for a managed warehouse. DWaaS is often used by companies that have limited resources or capital budget to store and manage large amounts of data.

Snowflake Data Warehouse

The Snowflake Data Warehouse, part of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform, is a SaaS data warehouse that eliminates the management fees and tuning costs of DWaaS and enables automatic scalability, high flexibility, and easy, secure global data sharing between internal business units and external partners.