Is your agency's data architecture truly resilient against a natural disaster, power grid failure, or major cloud outage? For state, local, and federal civilian organizations, a major disruption compromises essential citizen services and erodes public trust.

Snowflake hosted a webinar sharing best practices and providing step-by-step guidance to ensure the protection of your critical data and applications against any unplanned outage or planned migration.

What Was Covered: The Pillars of Resilience                                                                                                                                                                 

We dove deep into the two pillars of Snowflake's resilience architecture and how they map to government needs:

• Replication and Failover/Failback:
  • Learned to use Replication Groups and Failover Groups to create point-in-time consistent copies of your objects (including databases, shares, users, and roles) to one or multiple accounts across regions or cloud platforms.
  • Learned how to configure customizable schedules for different object groups based on criticality.
• Client Redirect:
  • Saw how a single, static connection URL automatically redirects all connected clients to a different Snowflake account during a failover, dramatically simplifying recovery and reducing RTO.