Purpose
Use this template to explain Snowflake cost movement without reducing the conversation to a credits chart.
Narrative structure
| Topic | Prompt |
|---|---|
| What changed? | Which warehouses, workloads, storage areas or teams moved materially? |
| Why did it change? | What business demand or technical pattern caused the movement? |
| Was value created? | Which outcome, product, process or dependency did the spend support? |
| What is the forecast? | What happens if the current trajectory continues? |
| What are the levers? | Scheduling, sizing, clustering, query design, isolation, governance or demand changes |
| What decision is needed? | Optimise, fund, constrain, redesign or accept |
Principle
Good FinOps explains the trade-off. It does not pretend every cost increase is waste.
