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Governance · Low severity

Snowflake Warehouse Auto-Suspend Not Tuned

The warehouse keeps running after the last query finishes, so idle compute is billed until the timer expires.

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Snowflakeprovider
Lowseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Snowflake

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Snowflake, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Tighten auto-suspend on the warehouse.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
Snowflake Warehouse on Snowflake
The fix, by hand
  1. Open Snowsight → Admin → Warehouses → the resource.
  2. Click Edit → set Auto-suspend to 60 seconds (120s for BI/result-cache-sensitive warehouses).
  3. Confirm Auto-resume is enabled so the warehouse wakes on the next query.
  4. Or run: ALTER WAREHOUSE the resource SET AUTO_SUSPEND = 60 AUTO_RESUME = TRUE;.
  5. Never disable AUTO_SUSPEND on production warehouses. Credits leak indefinitely after the last query.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Governance. Missing tags and labels that break cost attribution, such as no environment, team or cost-centre value.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-2100
Full reference

Snowflake Warehouse Auto-Suspend Not Tuned

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