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Snowflake Cookbook

By : Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif
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Book Image

Snowflake Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Hamid Mahmood Qureshi, Hammad Sharif

Overview of this book

Snowflake is a unique cloud-based data warehousing platform built from scratch to perform data management on the cloud. This book introduces you to Snowflake's unique architecture, which places it at the forefront of cloud data warehouses. You'll explore the compute model available with Snowflake, and find out how Snowflake allows extensive scaling through the virtual warehouses. You will then learn how to configure a virtual warehouse for optimizing cost and performance. Moving on, you'll get to grips with the data ecosystem and discover how Snowflake integrates with other technologies for staging and loading data. As you progress through the chapters, you will leverage Snowflake's capabilities to process a series of SQL statements using tasks to build data pipelines and find out how you can create modern data solutions and pipelines designed to provide high performance and scalability. You will also get to grips with creating role hierarchies, adding custom roles, and setting default roles for users before covering advanced topics such as data sharing, cloning, and performance optimization. By the end of this Snowflake book, you will be well-versed in Snowflake's architecture for building modern analytical solutions and understand best practices for solving commonly faced problems using practical recipes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Configuring Snowflake access to private S3 buckets

This recipe walks you through configuring access to private or restricted S3 buckets. The access configuration is a necessary step before you can load data from cloud storage, specifically from cloud storage buckets that are not public.

Getting ready

By now, you must have already created an S3 bucket that you intend to use to load data from the cloud to Snowflake. You should also have the privileges required to create a new Identity and Access Management (IAM) user and configure security settings in AWS. This recipe does not cover AWS configurations as it is assumed that you are well versed in managing AWS accounts and S3 storage. You should also know which AWS region your Snowflake instance is located in. You will require access to the ACCOUNTADMIN role in Snowflake as well.

How to do it…

Let's go through the steps required to set up a private or restricted S3 bucket for use with Snowflake:

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