--- title: "The Architecture of Canva's Data Platform" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-canva-s-data-platform-lj4vyq8wx source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/the-architecture-of-canva-s-data-platform-b20a type: article source: "Quastor Daily" published: 2024-12-31T10:33:33.876Z updated: 2024-12-31T10:33:57.217Z tags: ["cloud", "aws", "snowflake"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Architecture of Canva's Data Platform **[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canva uses Snowflake as the core of their data platform, storing over 25 petabytes of data and executing over 90 million queries a month. To avoid high costs, Canva developed a monitoring system using Snowflake’s account_usage.query_history view, dbt project, and real-time dashboards to track usage and assign costs. They integrate data from AWS S3 and Fivetran for data ingestion and use custom dbt macros for detailed query tracking. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#snowflake](https://daily.dev/tags/snowflake) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-canva-s-data-platform-lj4vyq8wx)