Snowflake Inc. builds the AI Data Cloud, a platform on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for storing, analyzing and sharing data, used by thousands of customers.
Snowflake Inc. is the company behind the AI Data Cloud, a platform that lets organizations break down data silos and store, analyze and share data across major cloud providers. It runs on top of AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, removing much of the infrastructure burden associated with traditional data warehouses. The platform is used by data engineers, data scientists and business analysts, and its technical scope spans data warehousing, data integration, data sharing, analytics, machine learning, data engineering and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Founded in 2012 and now a public company, Snowflake serves thousands of customers. Its work is concentrated on the data layer: helping firms consolidate scattered data and make it usable for analysis and machine learning rather than on any single industry vertical.
The company describes its team as being largely drawn from the data world and says it continues to work like a builder-oriented organisation after its IPO, with ongoing improvement of the platform and a stated focus on easing the work of data engineers, scientists and analysts. Its internal tone is casual and candid, with a self-aware streak about the friction of existing data processes.
