It Is Rarely One Big Thing

Runaway Snowflake and Databricks spend almost always comes from five small, fixable inefficiencies compounding quietly.

Idle Compute

Warehouses bill by the second while running. Long auto-suspend timers pay for compute long after the last query finished.

Oversized Warehouses

Scaled up for one slow query and never scaled back — a Large costs 4× a Small for every second it runs.

Repeated Heavy Queries

A short list of expensive queries runs over and over, defeating the result cache and dominating your bill.

No Cost Attribution

Nobody can say which team or pipeline drives spend, so nothing gets owned or optimized.

No Guardrails

No resource monitors or budgets, so the first sign of a problem is the invoice.

Audit, Fix, Govern, Enable

A tight engagement with measurable results inside the first month — no performance regressions.

1

Audit

Profile credit consumption from ACCOUNT_USAGE/system tables: warehouse utilization, top queries, storage, and cost attribution by team.

2

Optimize

Right-size warehouses, fix auto-suspend, tune the heaviest queries, and apply clustering/partitioning where it pays off.

3

Govern

Implement resource monitors, budgets, object tagging, and a chargeback model so spend stays visible and owned.

4

Enable

Hand over a cost dashboard plus a short workshop so your team maintains the gains long after the sprint.

Representative Outcomes

Drawn from real cost-optimization work. Actual savings depend on your starting point.

30–50%

Run-cost reduction, with no performance loss

< 30 days

To measurable savings

Zero

Query queueing after warehouse tuning

Per-team

Cost attribution and chargeback visibility

Day 1

Resource monitors and budget guardrails

Owned

Your team maintains the gains, not us

Common Questions

How long is the sprint?

Typically 2–3 weeks for a focused account. Larger estates may run longer, scoped up front.

Will optimization break production?

No. Changes are validated against your workloads — the goal is lower cost with the same or better performance.

Do we need to migrate first?

No. This works on your existing Snowflake or Databricks platform as-is.

What do we walk away with?

A cost/performance audit, the implemented fixes, a chargeback dashboard, governance guardrails, and a team trained to maintain them.

AK

FinOps from Someone Who Teaches It

The sprint is led by Amit Koti — SnowPro Core and 2× Databricks certified, author of a full course on Snowflake cost optimization (101 techniques). The same depth that goes into the curriculum goes into your account.

About Amit →

Find Out What You Are Overspending

Book a platform audit and we will show you where the credits are going — and what we would fix first.

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