The Snowflake whitepaper explains how its architecture delivers high availability for data applications by leveraging cloud-native design, multi-zone deployment, and built-in fault tolerance. Snowflake achieves 99.9% availability out of the box and offers features like database replication, failover, and client redirect to support even higher levels. Its decoupled architecture across storage, compute, and services ensures resilience against failures and simplifies maintenance. With automatic data replication, transparent failure recovery, and near-zero downtime during updates, Snowflake enables enterprises to meet stringent uptime and disaster recovery requirements.

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