appendix A Configuring your Snowflake environment

 

To learn data engineering with Snowflake, you can set up a Snowflake free trial account and configure your development environment.

A Snowflake free trial account includes 400 USD worth of credits, which is sufficient for the exercises in this book. The free trial account expires after 30 days. If you need more time to complete the exercises, you can sign up for another free trial account using the same information (name, email address, etc.) as in your previous free trial account. You cannot transfer your work from the old to the new Snowflake account.

Instead of creating a new Snowflake free trial account when your previous account expires, you can convert your free trial account to a paid Snowflake account by providing your credit card details. After your initial 400 USD worth of credits is used up, you will be charged for any additional credits consumed every month.

The following sections describe the Snowflake free trial sign-up process and configuration in more detail.

A.1 Signing up for a Snowflake free trial account

A.2 Installing and configuring Snowflake CLI