What is Virtual Private Snowflake ?

                 Are you looking for details of Virtual Private Snowflake or VPS? Are you also interested in knowing how to use an account locator for a VPS account? If so, then you reached the right place. In this article, we will learn about Virtual Private Snowflake.

A) What is Virtual Private Snowflake?

                  Snowflake comes in various editions such as Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Business Critical Edition etc. Virtual Private Snowflake or VPS is another snowflake edition.

                  Virtual Private Snowflake provides the highest level of securities for organizations that have strict security requirements e.g Financial Institutions. It helps great help while dealing with sensitive data for analyzing and sharing such sensitive data.

                  Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) comes with all the services and features of Business Critical Edition. However, all these Functionalities come in a completely separate environment i.e Isolated from all other snowflake accounts. In other words, the VPS accounts do not share resources with accounts outside VPS.

B) Account Identifier for VPS account 

                 The account identifier for the VPS account is different than other snowflake editions. As we know the other snowflake editions have specific formats for Account Identifier, you can click here for more details. As VPS uses a different structure for hostnames and URLs hence the format for VPS account identifier is also different. In order to get a specific format for the VPS account, we need to reach out to the snowflake support team.

                 However, we have another alternative option that we can use for VPS account Identifier and that format is 

                     <organization Name > _ <account Name>

C) Does VPS support secure Data sharing?

                 The answer is NO . the VPS or Virtual Private Snowflake currently does not support secure data sharing. On another hand, Enterprise and standard edition support secure Data sharing.

D) What are the important features of VPS?

                 Along with features of Business Critical Edition, the edition provides the following features 

                1) Use of  Tri -secret service for customer-managed encryption keys.

               2) Support for private connectivity to snowflake services using Azure Private Link, AWS                           Private Link, Google Cloud  Private service connect. 

               3) Dedicated metadata store and pool for compute resources 

               4) Support for FedRAMP for US government regions.

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