Introduction to organizations¶

Types of accounts¶

An organization can consist of the following types of accounts:

• Organization account: Special account used by organization administrators to manage multi-account organizations and to access usage data from premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. For more information, see Organization accounts.

• Regular Snowflake account, including trial accounts.

• Snowflake Open Catalog account: Special account used by service admins and catalog admins to manage catalogs defined in Snowflake Open Catalog. For more information, see Snowflake Open Catalog overview.

Benefits¶

• A central view of all accounts within your organization. For more information, refer to Viewing accounts in your organization.

• Self-service account creation. For more information, refer to Creating an account.

• Data availability and durability by leveraging data replication and failover. For more information, see Introduction to replication and failover across multiple accounts.

• Seamless data sharing with Snowflake consumers across regions. For more information, see Share data securely across regions and cloud platforms.

• Ability to monitor and understand usage across all accounts in the organization. For more information, see Organization Usage views.

Organization creation¶

Snowflake customers never directly create an organization. For users who sign-up for a Snowflake account using the self-service option, an organization is automatically created with a system-generated name when the account is created. For entities who work directly with Snowflake personnel to set up accounts, Snowflake creates the organization to which the accounts belong using a custom name. In either case, users can create additional accounts that belong to the organization after it is created with the initial account.

Viewing the name of your organization and its accounts¶

If you are the organization administrator, you can view the name of your organization and its accounts through the web interface or using SQL:

SQL:

Execute a SHOW ACCOUNTS command.

Snowsight:

Select Admin » Accounts. The organization name is listed above the account names.

Users with any role can execute the CURRENT_ORGANIZATION_NAME function to return the organization of the current account.

Users with any role can also find the organization name and account name for a specific account that they have previously signed in to. See Finding the organization and account name for an account.

Changing the name of your organization¶

If you want to change the name of an organization, for example to change a system-generated name to a more user-friendly one, contact Snowflake Support.

When you contact Snowflake Support, you must decide whether users can temporarily access accounts in the organization using the original account URL. If you keep the original account URL, it is automatically dropped after 90 days, at which time users must use the new account URL to access the account. If you want to drop the account URL before the 90 days expire, see Deleting an organization URL.

Deleting an organization¶

To delete your Snowflake organization:

1. Delete all accounts in the organization, except the account being used for the deletion.

2. Contact Snowflake Support to delete the last account and the organization.