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Sorry I wasn't clear, I was saying it's vague what there would be a new purchase min of $1k (now according to the rep it is their internal policy is whatever level you were contrac…

It is the min. additional required, given they calculate capacity usage into very small units (like one of our statements was for $0.20 which is also how they position themselves),…

OP here, for some of the common themes/FAQs, because I am going to hop off but the original post doesn't have enough character space for me to be clear. 1. No, we obviously did not…

The budget changed due to covid, we definitely anticipated using more than 10% in a year. Even at normal usage, we discussed with the rep that we could not finish in 1 year so what…

lol, I normally am very empathetic to sales people, I feel like they do a difficult, soul sucking job. But in this case, I agree and wish I just told the rep to bugger off.

Yep same lesson. As I wrote above, we knew we could not finish the min. contract amount based on prior usage which the rep said the roll-over is great for our use case and would be…

Only if you stay on demand, which is why I say, use Snowflake if it works for you (not knocking the product), just stay on demand. Edit to add that for those who don't believe the …

We knew we weren't going to use the entire prepaid amount and said to the sales rep we didn't think it was worth doing it because our usage was low and we would have amounts left o…

We did expect to use more but covid changed that, that said, the problem I am warning others about is the the sales conversation was not accurate, but none of what was promised was…

Throwaway to share a cautionary tale about contract chicanery with Snowflake to protect our ID. In mid-2019, I started testing DWH providers for our small data stack. Did the free …