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.
TIP Keep all your work organized in scripts in your Git repository or on your local file system so that you can execute them in a new Snowflake trial account after your previous account expires.
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.
WARNING If you upgrade your free trial Snowflake account to a paid account and later decide you no longer need it, you will have to contact Snowflake support to deactivate the account.
The following sections describe the Snowflake free trial sign-up process and configuration in more detail.