This is incorrect. Every edition of Snowflake is deployed across multiple availability zones with automatic failover in the case of failure or AZ outage. This is included in the price and requires no configuration by the customer. Cross-cloud/region failover requires the top edition and a few lines of SQL to configure (plus cloud egress costs for data replication).
The higher editions of Snowflake include features like materialised views, dynamic data masking, BYOK, PCI & HIPAA compliance etc., non of which are required for the benchmark.
The higher editions of Snowflake include features like materialised views, dynamic data masking, BYOK, PCI & HIPAA compliance etc., non of which are required for the benchmark.