Cortex AI Governance & FinOps

AI functions in the warehouse bill by token, so one bad query or loop can burn through a budget in hours.

Native spending controls didn't exist yet when teams started adopting Cortex.

Blocking AI would have slowed teams down; the goal was safe adoption, not prohibition.

Role-level access controls decide who can use which AI functions.

A token-based pricing model and daily credit limits per role set clear cost guardrails.

Credit monitoring with alerting and automatic cut-off stops runaway spend before it reaches the invoice.

Make the safe path the easy path: teams get access through roles, not tickets.

Build the kill switch before native controls existed, then keep it as the company baseline.

Share the approach publicly through The DataAI Chronicles and at Snowflake Summit.