A large manufacturing company runs a dozen individual Snowflake accounts across its business divisions. The company wants to increase the level of…

A Private Data Exchange is the recommended Snowflake feature for creating a centralized data hub for multiple internal business units (consumers and providers). It simplifies data discovery and access management, minimizing administrative effort. However, a Data Exchange is specific to a single Snowflake region. To include data from the European divisions, which are in different regions, the best practice is to use database replication. The European accounts can replicate their shared databases to the region where the Private Data Exchange is hosted. This allows their data to be listed and accessed through the same central exchange, creating a unified and scalable sharing architecture for the entire company.

A. Migrating entire accounts is a complex and costly process that may also conflict with data residency regulations (e.g., GDPR) for European divisions.
B. This creates a hybrid model with two separate sharing mechanisms (an exchange and direct shares), which increases management complexity, contradicting the requirement to minimize effort.
C. The Snowflake Marketplace is designed for monetizing and distributing data to external Snowflake customers, not for private, internal data sharing between a company's own divisions.

1. Introduction to the Snowflake Data Exchange: "A data exchange enables you to share data securely and in near real-time with a select group of members that you invite... You can create a data exchange to share data privately between your business units..." This supports the use of a Private Data Exchange for the core requirement.

Source: Snowflake Documentation, docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-exchange-intro.

2. Working with a Data Exchange: "A data exchange is specific to a Snowflake region. All members of a data exchange must have a Snowflake account in the same region." This highlights the regional limitation that necessitates replication.

Source: Snowflake Documentation, docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-exchange-working-with.

3. Introduction to Database Replication and Failover: "Replicate databases and keep them synchronized across multiple Snowflake accounts in different regions... This enables sharing data from a single source with consumers in different regions." This directly supports using replication to make data available for cross-region sharing, which can then be integrated into a regional Data Exchange.

Source: Snowflake Documentation, docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/database-replication-intro.