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# Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform for large-scale data storage, management, and analysis using SQL and modern cloud technologies.

**Below are the steps to add a Snowflake data source:**

* Create and grant access to Protecto
* Add Snowflake to Protecto