Snowflake Well Architected Framework¶
- Consists of
- Input: a series of questions/workshops to be asked to customers
- Output: Capability Model that depicts maturity level in each of the pillars
- Pillars:
- Enterprise Grade Deployment
- Security
- Architecture
- Data Governance
- Cost and Perf Opt
- Reliability
- Target Audience (top to bottom)
- Executives (C-Suites and C-Suites - 1)
- Heads of and Directors
- Business Stakeholders
- Technical leaders
- Technical Executors
Security¶
- Policies: Network, Authentication, Password, Session
Enterprise Grade Deployment¶
- Data Strategy is in place
- Objectives
- People
- Technology
- Operations
- Integrations
- Measurement
- Incentives
- Design conforms to best practices
Data Governance¶
- lineage and metadata
- data catalog
- data classification
- data lineage
- Quality
- DMF
- Privacy and security
- Encryption
- PII
- Data Stewardship
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data sharing
- clean rooms
- across platforms - Iceberg
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Change control
- approvals for security policy changes
Cost and Perf Optimization¶
Reliability¶
Data Platform Capabilities¶
Security Governance Layer Processing Layer (Applications, Analytical, Publishing) Data Layer Acquisition Layer Source Layer