Snowflake is a fully managed, cloud-native platform that automates nearly all infrastructure tasks. Two defining characteristics are:
1. Snowflake handles platform maintenance, management, and upgrades.
Snowflake automatically performs software updates, scaling operations, tuning, optimization, and patching.
Users never need to upgrade hardware, install software, or manage clusters.
2. There is no infrastructure for customers to provision and maintain.
All compute, storage, and services run on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). Snowflake abstracts the underlying infrastructure completely, eliminating the need for customers to manage VMs, disks, clusters, or networking.
Incorrect options:
* Snowflake supportsbothcolumn-level security (via masking policies)androw-level security (via row access policies).
* Snowflake is not responsible foralldata security-customers must configure RBAC, masking, and governance.
* Snowflake doesnotrun on-premises; it is exclusively cloud-based.
Thus, options C and D correctly describe Snowflake platform characteristics.