SnowPro Advanced Architect

Direct account-to-account Secure Data Sharing works only between accounts in the same region and cloud platform. The provider is in AWS us-west-2 and the consumer is in Azure East US 2, so a direct share (B) or a reader account created in the target region (D) will not work. The recommended pattern is to create a Snowflake account in the consumer's region/cloud (Azure East US 2), replicate the database objects to be shared into that account, then create the share and add the customer's account to it. Marketplace listings (A) are a collaboration/discovery mechanism, not the recommended private cross-cloud share sequence. Therefore C.