Launching the Snowflake Well-Architected Framework Review, brought to you by Lumilinks
In the world of data, speed and innovation tend to dominate the headlines. Organisations are modernising, migrating, and investing in advanced analytics at a remarkable pace. Yet one truth remains unchanged:
Success belongs to the companies that build on strong, well-governed foundations.
Snowflake has transformed what a modern data platform can be. It brings scale, simplicity, collaboration, and performance to thousands of teams across industries. It removes infrastructure blockers. It makes high-calibre data engineering achievable. It allows businesses to move at the pace of their ambition.
But a powerful platform still benefits from tuning and alignment. Even the smartest investments can fall short if the foundations are not continuously reviewed and improved. Many customers we speak to share the same sentiment:
We know Snowflake is capable of incredible things. We want to be confident we are making the most of it.
That is why today we are proud to introduce the Snowflake Well-Architected Framework Review, built natively to run inside your Snowflake environment. This new Lumilinks application gives Snowflake customers an automated, transparent, and structured way to benchmark and optimise their platform against Snowflake best practice.
This is not a consultancy report. It is not a one-off audit. It is a practical, repeatable, and native experience designed to help Snowflake customers thrive for the long term.
Practical makes powerful.
The Customer Challenge We Set Out to Solve
Richard Gardner, Lumilinks CTO, explains the industry challenge clearly:
“Customers often struggle to understand how well their Snowflake architecture aligns with best practices. Identifying areas for improvement in reliability, security, cost, operations, performance, and governance typically requires significant manual effort from expert consultants or internal teams. This manual process is time-consuming, inconsistent, and difficult to scale across a diverse customer base.”
Without clarity and reassurance, organisations face the risk of unexpected cost, performance bottlenecks, operational challenges, or security concerns. None of these arise from a flaw in Snowflake — they arise from the natural complexity of scaling a modern data platform without a consistent benchmark.
Richard summarises it simply:
“Customers do not struggle because Snowflake is complicated. They struggle because Snowflake is powerful, and they want to know they are using that power well.”
Teams are not searching for faults. They are searching for confidence.
The Promise of Snowflake, Realised Through Best Practice
Snowflake has become the global standard for modern data and AI platforms because it delivers:
• Elastic and intelligent computing
• Unified security and governance
• A consistent developer and data experience
• The ability to collaborate with data in real time
• A platform that evolves without disruptive upgrades
It lets teams focus on outcomes rather than maintenance. It lets them innovate without worrying about infrastructure. And it gives leaders a scalable foundation for the next decade of data innovation.
However, as adoption grows and workloads expand, platform design must evolve too. What worked at day 30 might not be optimal at day 300. Growth brings new needs around governance, automation, observability, cost optimisation, and scale.
That is where Snowflake’s Well-Architected Framework comes in. It defines what good looks like — not just at go-live, but as your organisation matures. Our new native review operationalises this guidance and makes it accessible to every Snowflake team.
What the Snowflake Well-Architected Framework Review Does
The Lumilinks review runs inside your Snowflake account to evaluate your platform across six core pillars:
Reliability
Resilience, continuity, and recovery readiness.
We check how warehouses scale, how workloads behave, and whether recovery targets are achievable without manual intervention.
Security
Identity, access, and data protection.
We validate the principles of least privilege, secure network access, encryption controls, masking strategies, and monitoring.
Cost and Performance
Efficient and value-aligned usage.
We assess compute behaviour, spill, pruning, warehouse tuning, tagging, and the use of resource monitors.
Architecture
Modern engineering discipline and automation.
We analyse environment structure, object design, CI/CD patterns, orchestration logic, and metadata hygiene.
Enterprise-Grade Deployment
Predictable and consistent performance at scale.
We examine clustering, materialised views, caching strategies, concurrency handling, and performance dashboards.
Data Governance
Trust, quality, and lifecycle control.
We evaluate data cataloguing, lineage, quality checks, sensitive data tagging, secure sharing, and retention practices.
For each pillar, you receive:
• Automated scoring
• Transparent code and evidence
• Clear findings
• Prioritised recommendations
• A path to improve over time
Everything happens inside your Snowflake environment. Nothing leaves your account. There is no unknown process and no black-box logic. It is clarity by design.
Why We Built It This Way
Dan Ellis, Lumilinks Chief Product and Marketing Officer, shared the philosophy behind this product:
“Our job is not to tell data teams what is wrong. Our job is to help them move faster with confidence by giving them the right tools for the job.”
That philosophy influenced every decision:
• Automated instead of subjective
• Native instead of external
• Transparent instead of opaque
• Continuous instead of one-time
• Empowering instead of advisory-only
The value is not only the score. It is the shared understanding.
It gets architects, engineers, and executives aligned.
It turns best practice from theory into daily practice.
This makes the review a confidence framework as much as a technical one.
Why Snowflake and Lumilinks
Lumilinks is proud to be a Snowflake Summit Award Winner and Partner of the Year. We built this application because we believe deeply in the Snowflake ecosystem and the people who build on it.
We choose Snowflake because Snowflake lets us:
• Build solutions that scale
• Focus on customer outcomes, not infrastructure
• Deliver value faster
• Empower teams rather than replace them
Snowflake gives organisations momentum.
Lumilinks gives them direction.
Together we help customers not just adopt Snowflake — but excel with it.
Included for Lumilinks Managed Service Customers
As part of the Lumilinks Snowflake Managed Service, customers automatically receive access to our award-winning Snowflake Native AI Application Suite, including the Well-Architected Framework Review.
They also benefit from continuous best-practice alignment, coaching, and optimisation support.
We believe the future of data operations is a blend of great people and smart automation. Our managed service reflects that belief.
Building a Healthy Snowflake Ecosystem
This launch is not about replacing architects or analysts — it is about elevating them. Great engineers want clarity, trust, and reusable patterns. Great leaders want confidence and transparency. Great organisations want scalable excellence.
A consistent, well-architected foundation benefits the entire Snowflake community. It ensures that Snowflake environments are secure, efficient, and future-ready — not just for today, but as workloads and ambitions grow.
The organisations that win will not only move fast. They will move fast on strong ground.
Practical foundations make powerful outcomes.
Ready to Maximise Your Snowflake Investment
Whether you are starting your journey or scaling into a multi-domain enterprise platform, this review is your fastest route to confidence, clarity, and continuous improvement.
No noise.
No disruption.
Just a clear, evidence-based picture of your Snowflake platform — and how to strengthen it.
Practical makes powerful.
Lumilinks for Snowflake.
