Mar 31, 2026: Use Snowsight to manage external volumes (General availability)¶

With this release, you can use Snowsight to manage external volumes for Apache Iceberg™ tables. This feature is now generally available and includes the following capabilities:

• Create an external volume, including optionally setting the external volume as the default at the account, database, or schema level.
• Grant USAGE privileges to an external volume.
• Add a storage location to an external volume.
• Verify an external volume to check that Snowflake can successfully authenticate to your storage provider.
• Drop an external volume.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Configure an external volume
• Drop an external volume by using Snowsight