A web service is a service offered by an electronic device to communicate with other electronic devices via the World Wide Web. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol specification for the transfer of structured data in the implementation of web services in computer networks. RESTful or Representational state transfer (REST) web services support the interoperability between computer systems on the internet by allowing requesting systems to access and manipulate textual representations of web resources using uniform state less operations.

Snowflake is a high performing cloud data warehouse. It can either be used to store your data in it or / and to use it as a data source.