About Snowflake
Last updated: November 11, 2026
Overview
Snowflake is the central data warehouse used by our customers to access their gaiia data, including accounts, products, and billing information. Its cloud-native architecture ensures scalability, security, and high availability for critical business operations.
This article covers what's included with your Snowflake access and links the guides to help you access and query your data.
Billing and usage considerations
Organizations have 50 Snowflake credits included with their gaiia plan by default. For standard analytics and reporting usage, this allocation is generally sufficient. However, if your workflows require extensive, frequent querying or large-scale data processing, you may need additional credits.
Note that Snowflake is an OLAP database meant for long-running analytics and reporting queries. It is not meant to replace a transactional database; using it to make frequent, small queries will lead to poor performance and high credit usage.
If you exceed the 50-credit limit, additional credits will be charged to your account.
If you anticipate needing more than the allocated credits on a regular basis, you have the option to use your own Snowflake account. In this scenario, you will be responsible for maintaining your Snowflake account, including costs, configurations, and performance tuning. Your account must run on AWS in us-east-1 for gaiia to share data with it directly. See Accessing your gaiia data in Snowflake for the requirements and alternatives.
You can switch from gaiia's Snowflake service to a self-managed Snowflake account at any time. If you plan to make this transition, please notify us in advance so we can assist with a smooth transition.
To monitor your Snowflake credit usage, sign in to your reader account and go to Admin > Cost Management in Snowflake.
Useful links
From gaiia
Getting started with gaiia Snowflake: create your reader account and add users.
Accessing your gaiia data in Snowflake: the managed reader account versus your own Snowflake account.
Connecting a BI tool with a Snowflake service user: connect Power BI, Tableau and other tools.
Your reader account: open it from Reader Account URL in Admin > Snowflake.
Data dictionary: describes every schema, table and field. Contact gaiia support to request access.