Which Snowflake edition supports transmitting data in encrypted form over the network between VPCs (virtual private cloud)?

A)  All editions
B)  Enterprise edition and above
C)  Business Critical edition and Above
D)  All except for the Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) edition

Correct Answer :   Business Critical edition and Above


Explanation : A Snowflake account on AWS (or Azure) is implemented as a VPC. There are two ways to establish communication between your Snowflake VPC and other VPCs (e.g. your organization’s VPC).

One is to transmit the traffic over the public internet. Other (and safer) option is to establish an exclusive, highly secure network between your Snowflake account and your other AWS VPCs (in the same AWS region), fully protected from unauthorized access.

To implement this secure channel of communication between VPCs, AWS supports a feature called AWS PrivateLink (Azure also supports a similar feature called Azure PrivateLink). Snowflake offers support for AWS PrivateLink (and Azure PrivateLink) based communication in Business Critical Edition and above.