Manage Snowflake compute costs for an analytics workload

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Verified steps

Create per-workload warehouses (ETL vs BI) with AUTO_SUSPEND=60 and AUTO_RESUME
Size up for big jobs, not out — multi-cluster is for concurrency, not speed
Use RESOURCE MONITORS with suspend triggers on credit quotas
Query history (QUERY_HISTORY view) to find spilling queries (local/remote spill = undersized warehouse)

Known gotchas

Billing is per-second with 60s minimum per resume — chatty jobs on auto-suspend=600 burn idle credits
Cloned/time-travel data extends storage retention costs invisibly (DATA_RETENTION_TIME_IN_DAYS)
Result cache only hits on byte-identical SQL with unchanged data — formatting noise kills it

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