This discussion highlights the rise of the Data Cloud, a network that connects Snowflake customers, partners, data providers, and data service providers across public cloud providers and regions. Frank Slootman states, “we are living in a data economy” where every interaction generates critical data and the volume of it has become overwhelming. Of course, Snowflake’s newest innovations are meant to deal with this giant surplus of data, providing many benefits to users that allow for end-to-end automation of business processes.