Cloud data platforms make scaling easy — and overspending easy too.
Understand the Pricing
Costs may come from compute time, data scanned, storage, data transfer and features. Know which drives your bill.
Visibility
- Tag resources and queries by team and project.
- Dashboards of spend over time.
- Identify the most expensive queries, pipelines and users.
Optimise Compute
- Right-size warehouses and clusters.
- Auto-suspend idle compute.
- Schedule heavy jobs efficiently.
Optimise Queries
- Partition and cluster large tables.
- Avoid scanning unnecessary columns and periods.
- Materialise frequently reused results.
Storage
- Lifecycle policies to move old data to cheaper tiers or delete it.
- Remove unused tables and duplicates.
Guardrails
Budgets, alerts and query limits catch runaway costs early.
Culture
Make costs visible to the people generating them.