Simply click on the "Start for Free"
button on the home page. In the form, fill out your information:
In the account configuration, choose an edition to use. The documentation page has more information about the differences between edition. In short, the higher the edition, the more support and security you get (and the more you pay). For the tutorial, the Standard edition suffices.
Next, choose the cloud provider you want to
use. Although there should be no major differences, some features might not be
available in all cloud providers. For the tutorial, choose AWS.
Finally, choose a region close to
where your data is:
And that’s it!
Behind the scenes, Snowflake is
setting up your account in the cloud provider of your choice.
After about 15 minutes, you get an activation
e-mail:
After clicking the activation link, you need to choose a username and a password:
Click Get Started to get to your personal workspace:
You’ll have a unique URL with your account name in it to access your Snowflake environment:
During the account set-up, some sample databases were provided as well:
This will give you an extra option
in the workspace:
There you can view your consumption, create
extra security roles or manage resource monitors.
