May 4, 2026: Snowpark Container Services autoscaling policies (General availability)¶

With this release, autoscaling policies for Snowpark Container Services are now generally available. Autoscaling policies extend the existing CPU-based autoscaling by letting you define metric-based rules that control how Snowflake scales service instances up, scales them down, or suspends them automatically. Policies support Snowflake-provided platform metrics and custom metrics that your service emits, giving you fine-grained control over scaling behavior based on CPU utilization, memory usage, ingress connection rate, and more.

For more information, see Scaling services.