Why are our Cloud & Snowflake Bills so high?
"Why Are Our Cloud & Snowflake Bills So High?"
A fireside chat hosted by Pump × Greybeam
If you've ever opened your AWS, GCP, Azure, or Snowflake invoice and wondered where it all went, this one's for you.
Join us at the Pump office for a candid fireside chat on why cloud and data warehouse costs creep up, and what engineering and data teams are actually doing to bring them back down. No sales pitches, just a practical conversation about seeing exactly where every dollar goes and cutting the spend that isn't pulling its weight.
What we'll cover
The most common (and most overlooked) drivers of runaway cloud bills
Why Snowflake costs keep climbing even after you've resized warehouses and tuned auto-suspend
How teams are routing workloads to cheaper compute without migrations or rewriting queries
Getting real visibility into spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, and Snowflake
Open Q&A: bring your toughest cost questions
Who should come
Engineering leaders, data engineers, analytics teams, DevOps/platform folks, finance and FinOps practitioners, and founders who own the cloud budget.
About the hosts
Pump helps companies lower their cloud costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure, so teams can spend less on infrastructure without changing how they build.
Greybeam is a query router that sits in front of Snowflake and automatically sends eligible queries to DuckDB, keeping Snowflake for the heavy workloads. Teams cut compute costs dramatically with no migration and no query changes. Just swap the connection string.
Schedule
6:00 PM – Doors open, snacks and drinks
6:30 PM – Fireside chat
7:10 PM – Q&A and networking
7:30 PM – Wrap up
Free snacks and beverages will be provided. Come hungry, bring your questions, and meet other folks fighting the same cloud bill battles.
📅 Monday, October 5, 2026
🕟 6:00 – 7:30 PM
📍 Pump Office — 1455 Market St
Spots are limited, so please register to reserve your seat.