Answer: Security, Metadata management

The Cloud Services layer in Snowflake handles infrastructure management, authentication, access control, query optimization, and metadata management. Security (A) is correct because this layer manages authentication, authorization, and access control. Metadata management (E) is correct because the Cloud Services layer maintains metadata about databases, tables, views, and other objects. Query computation (D) is incorrect as it occurs in the Virtual Warehouse (compute layer), not the Cloud Services layer. Data storage (B) is handled by the Storage layer, and data visualization (C) is typically performed by external tools, not within Snowflake's Cloud Services layer. The community discussion strongly supports AE with 85% consensus and upvoted comments explaining that query computation happens on compute resources (Virtual Warehouses), not in the Cloud Services layer.

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