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• Snowflake is an S3-based data warehouse service hosted in the cloud. Auto-scaling, automatic failover, and other features simplify the deployment and management of your enterprise's data warehouse. For more information, see https://www.snowflake.com. 

Pre-requisites

1. S3 base storage layer: Snowflake access requires installation of

   D s item
   item software

   in the AWS infrastructure and use of S3 as the base storage layer, which must be enabled. See Set Base Storage Layer. 
2. Same region:  The Snowflake cluster must be in the same region as the default S3 bucket.

3. Integration: Your  

   D s item
   item instance

     is connected to an EMR cluster. 

   Info
   NOTE: EMRFS Consistency View must be enabled.

   See Configure for EMR.

4. Deployment: 

   D s platform

   is deployed in EC2.

5. PUBLIC schema: If you do not create an external staging database:
   • A PUBLIC schema is required in your default database.
   • If you do not provide a stage database, then a temporary stage is created for you under the PUBLIC schema in the default database.
6. S3 bucket: The user-created stage must point to the same S3 bucket as the default bucket in use by 

   D s product

   .

Limitations

• You cannot perform ad-hoc publication to Snowflake.
• SSO connections are not supported.

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