SnowPro Advanced Architect Practice Test

Auto-suspend in a multi-cluster warehouse works by reducing the number of active clusters when there is no workload, while keeping a baseline of clusters running to handle new requests. You must have at least one cluster available to process queries, so the minimum you can configure is one cluster. If you tried to set the minimum to zero, there would be no active compute to start up when a new query arrives, making it impractical to resume work efficiently. Therefore, the typical minimum number of clusters for auto-suspend is one, allowing extra clusters to shut down during idle periods while one cluster remains ready to handle incoming work and scale up as needed within the max limit.