The cloud services layer runs on compute instances provisioned by Snowflake from the cloud provider.

• A. False
• B. True
• C. Only on-premises
• D. It does not run on compute resources

Answer: (B)

The cloud services layer is the control plane that handles authentication, metadata, transactions, and query planning, and it runs on compute instances provisioned by Snowflake within your cloud provider account. These internal service clusters are separate from user-facing query warehouses and are managed by Snowflake to coordinate overall operations, scale, and reliability. Because this layer runs on Snowflake-provisioned cloud compute, it belongs in the cloud and is not tied to on-premises infrastructure, and it does use compute resources. That’s why this statement is correct.