May 5, 2025 — Generation 2 standard warehouses — General availability¶

With this release, you can take advantage of the Generation 2 Standard Warehouse (Gen2) feature.

This feature is an updated version (the “next generation”) of the current standard virtual warehouse in Snowflake, focused on improving performance for analytics and data engineering workloads. Gen2 is built on top of faster underlying hardware and intelligent software optimizations, such as enhancements to delete, update, and merge operations, and table scan operations. With Gen2, you can expect the majority of queries finish faster, and you can do more work at the same time. The exact details depend on your configuration and workload. Conduct tests to verify how much this feature improves your costs, performance, or both.

To create and manage generation 2 standard warehouses, you can use the SQL commands CREATE WAREHOUSE and ALTER WAREHOUSE.

For more information, see Snowflake generation 2 standard warehouses. For the regions and cloud service providers where this feature is currently available, see region availability for generation 2 standard warehouses.