Bigger is Faster and Cheaper: The Surprising Economics of Snowflake Virtual Warehouses
A common mistake for Database Administrators, Engineers and Analysts is to assume that a bigger warehouse leads to higher costs. In reality, the situation is more nuanced, and often running a larger warehouse can, in fact, reduce the overall cost of ...
Emanuel Oliveira
Snowflake SME, passionate data nerd
Hi, regarding "This means, for example, that as the warehouse was scaled from an X5-LARGE to an X6-LARGE, although the query performance was improved by 60%, the cost was increased by 100% leading to an increase in query cost." but metrics table shows query performance was 100% (60s down from 2mins) while kept same cost $8.. so bit confused as: metrics table shows - double performance with same cost: X5 2 mins $8 X6 60s $8
But your paragraph tells: query only improved 60%, and also it says cost doubled.
Can you please explain if there's a typo anywhere and/or where am I misunderstanding metrics table vs your paragraph? Thanks in advance ☺️