Introduction to organizations¶

An organization is a first-class Snowflake object that links the accounts owned by your business entity. Organizations simplify account management and billing, Replication and Failover/Failback, Snowflake Secure Data Sharing, and other account administration tasks.

This feature allows organization administrators to view, create, and manage all of your accounts across different regions and cloud platforms.

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.