A company needs to have the following features available in its Snowflake account: 1. Support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 2. A minimum of 2 months of Time Travel availability 3. Database…

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Options

• AStandard
• BEnterprise
• CBusiness Critical
• DVirtual Private Snowflake (VPS)

• C
  94% (17)
• D
  6% (1)

Explanation

Each requirement maps to a minimum Snowflake edition. MFA and native JDBC/ODBC are available on all editions including Standard. The critical differentiators are: (1) Time Travel of 2+ months (up to 90 days) requires Enterprise edition or higher - Standard only provides up to 1 day. (2) Database replication across regions requires Enterprise or higher. (3) Tri-Secret Secure - where the customer manages their own encryption key alongside Snowflake's key and the cloud provider's key - is exclusively a Business-Critical feature. (4) PCI DSS compliance certification is also only available at the Business-Critical tier. Since both Tri-Secret Secure and PCI DSS require Business-Critical, and that edition also satisfies all lower-tier requirements (Enterprise features for Time Travel and replication, Standard features for MFA and JDBC/ODBC), Business-Critical is the minimum necessary edition. VPS (Option D) would also work but is more expensive and is not the minimum.

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