Finding meaningful cost savings is a high priority for companies running their enterprise architecture in the public cloud. Cloud costs have ballooned in recent years and account for over 30% of IT budgets, reports IDC. Enterprises have sought to shift their cloud workloads from on-premises to public clouds, depending upon pricing and performance, to provide themselves with better leverage and business flexibility.

We’ve talked about the many ways large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) are impacting business efficiency, data and analytics, and even FinOps. But we’ve yet to talk about arguably one of the most important areas of concern: security.

Fast moving data and real time analysis present us with some amazing opportunities. Don’t blink—or you’ll miss it! Every organization has some data that happens in real time, whether it is understanding what our users are doing on our websites or watching our systems and equipment as they perform mission critical tasks for us. This real-time data, when captured and analyzed in a timely manner, may deliver tremendous business value.

We are excited to announce the availability of data pipelines replication, which is now in public preview. In the event of an outage, this powerful new capability lets you easily replicate and failover your entire data ingestion and transformations pipelines in Snowflake with minimal downtime.