Every major cloud now sells the stack this chapter assembled by hand: open table files in object storage, a catalog, automatic maintenance and several engines. Each of the five platforms below needs a cloud account, and some a payment method, so this section is documentation only, not run here, with prices checked on the vendors' pages on 2 October 2026. Their warehouse and Spark 129 compute prices are in Cloud Data Warehouses and Managed Spark Platforms; this section covers what is specific to the lakehouse: table format, catalog, maintenance and how each is billed.
