First steps with Snowplow
Choose the Snowplow platform that works for your business. See the feature comparison page for more information.
We offer two fully featured Customer Data Infrastructure (CDI) platforms:
- Snowplow CDI Private Managed Cloud: hosted in your own cloud, managed by Snowplow
- Snowplow CDI Cloud: hosted and managed by Snowplow
For self-hosted deployments, we have:
- Snowplow Community Edition: not for production use, hosted and managed by you
- Snowplow Self-Hosted: for production use, for existing Snowplow users
Customer Data Infrastructure
Snowplow CDI is our full infrastructure offering. Choose whether you'd like the data plane to be entirely hosted in your cloud account, or whether you'd prefer Snowplow to host the pipeline infrastructure for you.
The control plane, which includes a UI and an API for defining your data and managing your infrastructure, is always hosted by Snowplow.
CDI Private Managed Cloud
Private Managed Cloud is a version of Snowplow hosted in your own cloud account, using your data warehouse or lake. Ongoing pipeline maintenance, such as upgrades and security patches, are managed by Snowplow.
| Hosted by Snowplow | Hosted by you | |
|---|---|---|
| Control plane | ||
| Management Console | ✅ | |
| API endpoints | ✅ | |
| Data plane | ||
| Pipeline infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP) | ✅ | |
| Data destination (warehouse / lake) | ✅ |
CDI Cloud
Cloud is a hosted version of Snowplow designed to get your organization up and running and delivering value from behavioral data as quickly as possible. With Cloud, you don't need to set up any cloud infrastructure yourself.
All data processed and collected with Snowplow Cloud is undertaken within Snowplow's own cloud account.
| Hosted by Snowplow | Hosted by you | |
|---|---|---|
| Control plane | ||
| Management Console | ✅ | |
| API endpoints | ✅ | |
| Data plane | ||
| Pipeline infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP) | ✅ | |
| Data destination (warehouse / lake) | ✅ |
Self-Hosted
With Self-Hosted, you deploy and host everything. Many features, including the control plane, are not available in Self-Hosted.
Community Edition
Snowplow Community Edition is for non-production use cases. It's a starter template: use it to evaluate Snowplow for testing purposes.
Community Edition infrastructure is provided under the SLULA license.
| Hosted by Snowplow | Hosted by you | |
|---|---|---|
| Control plane | ||
| Management Console | N/A | N/A |
| API endpoints | N/A | N/A |
| Data plane | ||
| Pipeline infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP) | ✅ | |
| Data destination (warehouse / lake) | ✅ |
Production Self-Hosted license
If you have an existing Snowplow implementation, either Community Edition or a legacy deployment, you're eligible for Snowplow Self-Hosted. It's a production-use license.
| Hosted by Snowplow | Hosted by you | |
|---|---|---|
| Control plane | ||
| Management Console | N/A | N/A |
| API endpoints | N/A | N/A |
| Data plane | ||
| Pipeline infrastructure (AWS / Azure / GCP) | ✅ | |
| Data destination (warehouse / lake) | ✅ |