Oracle plans to offer Snowflake as a native OCI service
Oracle plans to offer Snowflake as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with purchasing and billing handled through Oracle. Customers would be able to use existing eligible cloud credits and supported connections to Oracle data. The companies have not specified a general availability date, regional rollout schedule or detailed pricing for the offering.
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Customers would purchase Snowflake through Oracle
Oracle and enterprise-data company Snowflake announced plans on October 27 to make Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle’s cloud platform. Customers would purchase, provision and consume the service through Oracle. The commercial relationship would cover pricing, applicable discounts and billing through one provider. The arrangement is intended to bring Snowflake’s analytics and artificial intelligence tools alongside enterprise data held in Oracle systems.[1], [2]
Existing credits and supported data connections are included
Customers would be able to apply Oracle Universal Credits, credits for eligible Oracle cloud services, to Snowflake usage. Planned connections include Oracle databases and enterprise applications. The companies say supported integrations would move data between systems and reduce the need to build custom transfer pipelines. They also intend to maintain customer control over data access, use and governance while enabling reporting, data engineering and machine-learning workloads.[1]
Rollout and detailed prices remain unspecified
Keeping data movement within Oracle’s cloud is intended to reduce transfers between clouds and the associated charges. Actual savings would depend on each customer’s architecture, transfer needs and usage. The announcement gives no estimates for cost reductions or performance improvements. Nor does it specify a general availability date, regional rollout schedule or detailed prices. The native service therefore remains a planned offering rather than an announced service already generally available.[1], [2]
