Configure Egress Cost Optimizer

If you’re a provider, you can use Cross-Cloud Auto-Fulfillment (auto-fulfillment) for a listing to automatically replicate your data product to other Snowflake regions without having to manually replicate data.

This section describes how to authorize multi-region sharing and enable and disable Egress Cost Optimizer (ECO) for your account or database.

Authorize multi-region sharing egress cost optimization

ECO must be authorized before it can be used. You can enable ECO initially from the Snowsight Home page, or later using the Settings.

To initially authorize ECO, do the following:

  1. Sign in to Snowsight as a user who has been granted the ORGADMIN privilege.

  2. In the navigation menu, select Data Products » Provider Studio.

  3. Select the Home tab.

  4. Click Get Started.

  5. Click Authorize.

    Why this is important

    Egress Cost Optimizer is a feature of Cross-Cloud Auto-Fulfillment that helps you reduce egress costs by up to 80% when sharing the same data to multiple regions.

    Enable Egress Cost Optimizer By opting to use Egress Cost Optimizer, you enable Snowflake to intelligently route your data to minimize egress costs. You also authorize the associated Snowflake Third-party

    Sub-processors to process your data in the cloud regions described in our Documentation. Your data is always secure with end-to-end encryption in transit and rest with no impact to query latency when processed through Egress Cost Optimizer.

    Once Authorized The optimizations will be enabled for all accounts in your organization. The account administrators can disable it.

Enabling Egress Cost Optimizer

You can enable ECO at the account or database level.

Where an auto-fulfillment schedule is set on the account level, rather than on the database level, the egress cost optimizer will be enabled on all the listings that follow the account schedule.

Enable or disable ECO for an entire account

  1. In the navigation menu, select Data Products » Provider Studio.

  2. Select the Settings tab.

  3. Click Get Started.

  4. Click Authorize.

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