Snowflake Evidence

Start/resume minimums and per-second billing

Catalog row in Vendor License Evidence · Cited

Kind: Quote
Excerpt: "Unless otherwise noted, when a Virtual Warehouse or a Postgres Compute Node is started or resumed, a minimum of one minute’s worth of Platform Credits will be consumed; when an Interactive Warehouse (a type of Virtual Warehouse) is started or resumed, a minimum of sixty (60) minutes’ worth of Platform Credits will be consumed; when a Compute Node (except for Postgres Compute) is started or resumed, a minimum of five minutes’ worth of Platform Credits will be consumed. Thereafter, Virtual Warehouses and Compute Nodes will be charged on a per second basis, rounded up to the nearest whole second."
Locator: CreditConsumptionTable.pdf p.1, Compute (Virtual Warehouse Services, SPCS Compute, Snowflake Openflow, and Postgres Compute)
Applies to: Start/resume minimums and per-second billing
Supports rules: Per-second billing after a start/resume minimum (1 minute; 60 minutes Interactive; 5 minutes Compute Nodes)
Suspended warehouses use no credits; multi-cluster = size rate x running clusters
Related metrics: Platform Credit
Sources: Snowflake Service Consumption Table