Storage Intelligence

Your Snowflake storage costs
are growing while you sleep.

Time Travel retention, Fail-Safe overhead, and clone sprawl add 20–40% on top of your active data cost — silently. Anavsan surfaces exactly what's growing, by table, by type, and by team.

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Storage Breakdown · account.snowflakecomputing.com ● Live
Active data
2.73 TB $65.5/mo
Time Travel
1.18 TB $28.3/mo ⚠
Clone overhead
0.19 TB $4.6/mo ✕
Fail-Safe (fixed)
0.09 TB $2.2/mo
Reducible today (Time Travel + Clones) Save ~$32.9/mo
20–40%
of storage cost is typically non-active data
$23
per TB per month — active + TT + Fail-Safe
1 day
is all most tables need for Time Travel retention
Zero
business data leaves Snowflake — metadata only
The Problem

Storage bills grow silently.
Nobody notices until month-end.

Snowflake charges storage in four categories. Most teams only see "Storage" as a single line. Time Travel, Fail-Safe, and clone overhead compound every day without attribution.

Time Travel over-provisioned by default

Tables retain deleted data for the configured retention period. Staging and temp tables with 7-day or 90-day retention pay for data nobody will ever restore.

Clone sprawl silently compounds

Zero-copy clones start free, but once a clone is modified via DML it accumulates independent storage. Forgotten dev/test clones quietly inflate your bill month after month.

No attribution by table or team

Your bill shows "Storage: $2,400." Which table, which schema, which team is responsible? Without attribution, reducing storage costs is guesswork.

How Anavsan solves this

Per-table storage attribution — automatic.

Anavsan maps every byte of Time Travel, Fail-Safe, clone, and active storage to the table, schema, and owning team — so you know exactly what to reduce and who to route the action to.

Time Travel storage by table with retention recommendations
Clone inventory with divergence and stale-clone detection
Table growth trends and cold-data identification
Ownership routing for every storage anomaly
Projected monthly savings per recommended action
Capabilities

Find every hidden dollar in your storage bill

Anavsan maps every storage cost to its source — Time Travel, Fail-Safe, clones, table growth — with actionable recommendations for each.

Time Travel Cost Management
Time Travel keeps deleted and modified data for up to 90 days — but most tables don't need more than 1 day. Identify over-provisioned retention and reclaim the cost.
  • Table-level Time Travel storage attribution
  • Retention policy audit across schemas and databases
  • Recommendations: which tables can safely drop to 1-day
  • Projected monthly saving per retention change
Clone & Shadow Copy Detection
Zero-copy clones are great in dev workflows, but modified clones create storage overhead that compounds silently. Anavsan identifies clones that have diverged from their source.
  • Full clone inventory: creation date, owner, storage consumed
  • Divergence tracking: clones that have grown beyond acceptable size
  • Stale clone identification (not queried in 30+ days)
  • DROP candidate recommendations with storage reclaim estimate
Table Growth & Bloat Monitoring
Track which tables are growing fastest, identify tables never queried in 90 days, and detect large tables that could benefit from data lifecycle policies or archival.
  • Top-N tables by storage size and monthly growth rate
  • Query frequency vs storage size — identify cold data
  • Micro-partition density and DML-driven bloat signals
  • Archival and partitioning recommendations
Fail-Safe & Compliance Visibility
Fail-Safe is 7 days and non-configurable. Anavsan gives you visibility into its cost so you can make informed decisions about data lifecycle and table type selection.
  • Per-table Fail-Safe storage and cost estimate
  • High-churn table identification (DML frequency vs Fail-Safe cost)
  • Storage cost forecasting based on current data growth rate
  • Transient table recommendations to eliminate Fail-Safe where appropriate
How Storage is Billed

Four buckets.
Most teams only see one.

Snowflake charges storage in four categories. Active data is obvious — but Time Travel, Fail-Safe, and clone overhead typically account for 20–40% of storage spend and are almost never directly attributed per table.

Active data
Current rows in tables and materialized views. This is the cost you see.
Time Travel data
Deleted/updated rows kept for retention period (1–90 days). Configurable per table — but rarely audited.
Fail-Safe data
7 additional days after Time Travel. Fixed, non-configurable. For disaster recovery only.
Clone storage
Zero-copy initially, but grows with DML on the clone. Easy to forget until the bill arrives.
20–40%
of storage cost is typically non-active data: Time Travel + Fail-Safe + clones
$23/TB
Snowflake on-demand storage rate per month. Applies to all tiers: active, TT, and Fail-Safe.
1 day
Most tables need only 1-day Time Travel. Setting it to 90 costs 90× the retention overhead.
How It Works

Attribute → Optimize → Govern

From connection to actionable storage recommendations in minutes. No infrastructure changes, no data movement.

1

Connect via metadata-only access

Anavsan connects using a read-only service user. Only ACCOUNT_USAGE and INFORMATION_SCHEMA signals — zero business data leaves Snowflake.

2

Storage is attributed by table and type

APEX maps every byte of active, Time Travel, Fail-Safe, and clone storage to the owning table, schema, database, and team using Snowflake metadata.

3

Recommendations are ranked by saving

Every optimization — retention reduction, stale clone removal, cold table archival — is ranked by projected monthly saving so you work the highest-value actions first.

4

Savings are documented with proof

Before/after storage comparisons are captured automatically after changes — ready for cost governance review with timestamp, owner, and credit evidence.

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