Answer: A Snowflake account can both provide and consume shared data., The Data Consumer pays only for compute resources to query the shared data.

Based on Snowflake's Secure Data Sharing documentation and the community consensus (with multiple comments citing the official documentation and receiving upvotes), the correct answers are C and E. Option C is correct because any Snowflake account can function as both a data provider and consumer, enabling bidirectional sharing. Option E is correct because data consumers only pay for compute resources (virtual warehouses) used to query shared data; they do not pay for storage since no data is physically copied. Option A is incorrect because consumers don't pay for storage. Option B is incorrect because shared data isn't copied to the consumer's account—it's accessed via metadata. Option D is incorrect because providers aren't charged for consumers' compute usage.

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