November 7, 2025: Storage lifecycle policies (General Availability)

Storage lifecycle policies are now generally available. These schema-level objects let you manage data retention for standard Snowflake tables by archiving or expiring rows based on your defined conditions.

Storage lifecycle policies provide the following key capabilities:

  • Reduced storage costs: Move older data to more cost-effective archive storage tiers.

  • Regulatory compliance: Automate data archival and deletion to help meet compliance requirements.

  • Automated data management: Archive and delete data automatically using Snowflake-managed compute resources.

  • Flexible data retrieval: Retrieve archived data by creating a new table that contains only the rows you need.

For more information, see Storage lifecycle policies.

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