Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily news and commentary show, guest-hosted by Acceleration Economy practitioner analyst Kieron Allen. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud.
In this episode, Kieron provides further context on a partnership between Microsoft and Snowflake outlined at Snowflake’s customer conference held June 26–29.
This episode is sponsored by Acceleration Economy’s “Cloud Wars Top 10 Course,” which explains how Bob Evans builds and updates the Cloud Wars Top 10 ranking, as well as how C-suite executives use the list to inform strategic cloud purchase decisions. The course is available today.
Highlights
00:23 — Snowflake and Microsoft announced they have extended an existing partnership and will focus on bringing generative AI models and advanced machine learning (ML) functionality to Snowflake’s Data Cloud. This will be achieved through product integrations with Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
00:42 — Snowflake customers will be able to leverage Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Cognitive Services to develop advanced data products using Snowflake data. Azure ML integration will support accelerated ML workflows for joint customers.
00:54 — Other new and updated integrations between Snowflake Data Cloud and Microsoft products include Power Apps and Automate for low-code, no-code app development, as well as Azure Data Factory for Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tasks, PowerBI for Data Visualization, and more.
01:11 — This partnership between two Cloud Wars Top 10 companies will yield streamlined and simplified AI initiatives for customers.
