Can Snowflake replicate databases across regions and cloud providers?

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only across the same region
• D. Only across the same cloud provider

Answer: (A)

Snowflake's replication capability lets you copy databases across different regions and even across cloud providers. This is done through the database replication feature, which creates a replicated, read-only copy of your database in a secondary Snowflake account that can be in another region and on a different cloud provider. The replica stays in sync with the primary asynchronously, and you can promote it to become the new primary if a failover is needed. This cross-region and cross-cloud support makes it possible to have a DR or regional presence in diverse environments, which is why this statement is true.