Snowflake's Instacart protestations hint at challenges for poster child of the data cloud

If customers can slash bills by 'optimizing,' what does that mean for revenue?
Opinion Snowflake should have been enjoying positive results at the end of last month. Revenue for the second for the quarter was $674.0 million, a 36 percent leap on the same period last year, albeit with an operating loss of $285.4 million, up from $207.7 million on Q2 2022.…