Bill Anatomy & Attribution — Week 1 Check
Meters, attribution, and capacity models. Every question is answerable from the Week 1 brief.
An X-Small warehouse (1 credit/hour) resumes, runs for 90 seconds of queries, and auto-suspends. How many credits did it burn?
A "cloud services" line item appears on the bill for the first time this month. What most likely happened?
A heavily-updated table's live size is flat, but its storage bill keeps climbing. Why?
A workload automation resizes a warehouse up and down dozens of times per day to "match demand precisely." Why can this cost MORE than a static size?
After buying committed slot capacity, a team carves it into separate reservations for ETL, ad-hoc, and dev workloads with project assignments. What does the carving prevent?
Data ingress is "free from Snowflake." What's the catch?