Stop Paying for Compute Time Nobody's Using
Every second between the last query and the Snowflake auto-suspend mechanism kicking in is pure waste – capacity nobody’s using, billed in full, that can add up to 8–20% of your Snowflake bill.
A few seconds here, a few seconds there – across hundreds of warehouses and thousands of quiet moments a day, that adds up to 8–20% of your entire Snowflake bill. It’s money on the floor: it buys nothing, nobody’s using it, and it can be recovered reliably, with barely any effort, and without putting your workloads at risk. Seemore Data’s Auto-Shutdown watches every warehouse in real time and suspends it the moment it actually stops working – without ever touching a running query, and without you configuring a thing. You’re a few toggles away from complete idle optimization!
Idle time is the cleanest saving in Snowflake: there’s no trade-off, because nobody is using the capacity you’re being billed for.
- Suspends each warehouse the moment it goes idle, instead of waiting out a fixed timeout – every time, on every warehouse
- Typically 8–20% of compute spend, without any configuration overhead
- Running multi-cluster warehouses? Pair it with Auto-Scaler, which scales idle extra clusters back down the same way – so you’re not paying for clusters nobody’s using either
- Reports the actual savings it captured per warehouse, so the impact on your bill is measured, not estimated
Every safeguard is checked before a single action is taken – Auto-Shutdown is built to be the automation you can turn on and forget.
- Never suspends a warehouse with a running or queued query. The check runs before every suspension, without exception
- Respects Snowflake’s 60-second minimum billing. A warehouse is never suspended inside the first minute you’ve already paid for – so you never throw away capacity you’ve been charged for
- Queries always complete on their own. Nothing is terminated, cancelled, or interrupted mid-flight
No scripts, no scheduled jobs, no per-warehouse tuning to maintain.
- One permission grant and one toggle turn it on
- Enable it globally at the account level, or warehouse by warehouse – your choice, changeable any time
- No agents to deploy, no dedicated monitoring warehouse to pay for, no code to write or maintain
- Starts saving from the moment it’s switched on – practically nothing to configure, calibrate, or tune per warehouse
Automation you can see is automation you can trust – every action is logged, measured, and reversible.
- Idle-time analytics per warehouse: average idle per session at P50, P90 and P95, plus idle vs. execution time side by side
- Every suspension is recorded in the Event Log and attributed to Auto-Shutdown, so nothing changes anonymously
- Savings reported per warehouse, alongside SmartPulse, Auto-Scaler and Insights in one view
- See exactly how much idle time was eliminated, warehouse by warehouse, at any point in time
