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Snowflake

Last updated: Nov 3, 2026

Rationale

Snowflake is the database that Fluid Attacks uses for analytics.

Fluid Attacks chose Snowflake over other alternatives for these reasons:

  • It is much faster.
  • It has a deeper Terraform integration.
  • It has flexible permission sets.
  • It integrates well with dbt.
  • Users can create multiple computing environments, each with the necessary resources.
  • Its storage is cheap.
  • Its pricing model is based on use, primarily on the processing power that Fluid Attacks uses.

Alternatives

Fluid Attacks evaluated this alternative and rejected it for these reasons.

AWS Redshift

  • It is slower.
  • Its clusters are not flexible.

Usage

Fluid Attacks uses Snowflake as its analytics database.

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