Snowflake, Inc. offers cloud data warehouse software. This includes Data Cloud, an ecosystem where Snowflake customers, partners, data providers, and data consumers can break down data silos to extract value from rapidly-growing datasets in a secure, governed, and compliant manner. Its platform supports a range of use cases, including data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. The cloud-native architecture consists of three independent and scalable layers in the storage, computing, and cloud services domains. The storage layer receives massive and diverse structured and semi-structured data to create a unified data record. The computing layer provides dedicated resources that allow users to access a common dataset for multiple use cases without latency. The cloud services layer optimizes the performance requirements of each use case without the need for management. Snowflake was founded by Marcin Zukowski, Thierry Cruanes, and Benoit Dageville on July 23, 2012, and is headquartered in Bozeman, Missouri.