What does Snowflake do?

SNOW · Plain-English company overview

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In the company's own words, from Item 1 (Business) of its latest annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the SEC on 2026-03-20.

Snowflake solves the decades-old problem of data silos and data governance. Leveraging the elasticity and performance of the public cloud, our platform enables customers to unify and query data to support a wide variety of use cases. It also provides frictionless and governed data access so users can securely share data inside and outside of their organizations, generally without copying or moving the underlying data. As a result, customers can blend existing data with new data for broader context, augment data science efforts, and create new monetization streams. Delivered as a service, our platform requires near-zero infrastructure maintenance, enabling customers to focus on deriving value from their data rather than managing infrastructure.

Our cloud-native architecture includes three independently scalable but logically integrated layers across storage, compute, and cloud services. The storage layer ingests massive amounts and varieties of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. The compute layer provides dedicated resources to enable users to simultaneously access common data sets for many use cases with minimal latency. Within the compute layer, users can clean and prepare their data, including any required metadata and business semantics, to create governed, unified data records that are AI ready and are written back to the storage layer. The cloud services layer enables users to securely use AI within applications, tools, and processes. This architecture is built on three major public clouds across 53 regional deployments around the world. These deployments are generally interconnected to deliver the AI Data Cloud, enabling a consistent, global user experience.

Read the full 10-K on SEC.gov →

How did Snowflake's latest earnings compare?

An earnings release is a company's quarterly report of how much money it made. Analysts predict these numbers ahead of time, and the actual results are compared against those predictions.

In the most recent quarter (2026-06-30), Snowflake reported earnings of $0.39 per share. Analysts expected $0.3246 per share, so the company beat expectations.

SEC Filings

Key filings
Annual report (10-K)
The company's big yearly financial report.
2026-03-20
Quarterly report (10-Q)
A financial update covering the last 3 months.
2026-05-29
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-07-16
Most recent filings
Proposed share sale (144)
Notice that an insider plans to sell some shares.
2026-08-26
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-20
Proposed share sale (144)
Notice that an insider plans to sell some shares.
2026-08-18
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-14
Proposed share sale (144)
Notice that an insider plans to sell some shares.
2026-08-12
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-11
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-11
Proposed share sale (144)
Notice that an insider plans to sell some shares.
2026-08-07
Proposed share sale (144)
Notice that an insider plans to sell some shares.
2026-08-07
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-05
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