Connect to Snowflake from Azure vs AWS

[mmossel]

What are the differences to consider when connecting to Snowflake running on AWS versus Azure? Because of the new enhanced connector, if I'm correct: now you DON'T need a gateway to connect from the Power BI Service to AWS, and that the gateway would need to be installed on a VM in AWS that would need to be able to connect outwards to the Power BI Service.

What could then be a disadvantage when choosing for AWS instead of Azure, in terms of performance and costs?

Thank you!

[v-yuaj-msft]

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[v-yuaj-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @mmossel ,

Based on your description, please refer to the following links to learn the differences between AWS and Azure.

GCP vs AWS vs Azure | Comparison on Top Cloud Services (educba.com)

Snowflake AWS, Azure and, GCP comparison - YouTube

For datasets that include separate queries one that connects to an on-premises data source and the other to a cloud data source, the gateway doesn't execute the query for the cloud data source. If datasets have cloud and on-premises data sources merged or appended in a single query, the web data sources also need to be added into the gateway.

Merge or append on-premises and cloud data sources - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

Hope that's what you were looking for.

Best Regards,

Yuna

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