The industry standard for cloud data warehousing. It excels at separating compute from storage, allowing for elastic scaling. However, the pricing is complex, credits are expensive, and its proprietary 'walled garden' makes moving data out difficult and costly.

Google's serverless data warehouse. It excels at petabyte-scale analytics without infrastructure management. However, its pricing model is high-risk for teams without strict cost controls, and its proprietary storage (Capacitor) creates heavy vendor lock-in.