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Supported cloud platforms
Snowflake is provided as a self - managed service that runs completely on cloud infrastructure. This means that all three layers of Snowflake’s architecture (storage, compute, and cloud services) are deployed and managed entirely on a…
Multi-Location Resilience for Data Pipelines
Multi - Location Storage Integration (MLSI): Securely connects Snowflake to multiple external cloud storage locations across regions or clouds. MLSI is needed when you want resilience for either COPY INTO from external stages alone or for…
Supported cloud regions
Snowflake supports regions across all of the Snowflake - supported cloud platforms, grouped into three global geographic segments (North/South America, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia Pacific/China). Important Each Snowflake account is…
Introduction to business continuity & disaster recovery
Account objects and databases can be replicated to multiple accounts in different regions and cloud platforms, mitigating the risk of multiple region or cloud platform outages. In addition, Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and Database…
Share data securely across regions and cloud platforms
Cross - region data sharing is supported by Snowflake accounts hosted on any of the following cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Microsoft Azure (Azure)…
Snowflake interactive tables and interactive warehouses
Snowflake interactive tables and interactive warehouses are specialized types of Snowflake objects that are optimized for low - latency, high concurrency workloads. Ideal for use cases such as real - time dashboards, data - powered APIs, and…
Tri-Secret Secure self-service with private connectivity in Snowflake
Our dual - key encryption model combines a Snowflake - maintained key and a customer - managed key (CMK), which you create on the cloud provider platform that hosts your Snowflake account. The model creates a composite master key that protects…
Overview of data loading
Snowflake refers to the location of data files in cloud storage as a stage. The COPY INTO <table> command used for both bulk and continuous data loads (Snowpipe) supports cloud storage accounts managed by your business entity (external…
Overview of key features
Choose the geographical location where your data is stored, based on your region. User authentication through standard user/password credentials. Enhanced authentication: Multi - factor authentication (MFA). Federated authentication and…
Using Snowflake stage volumes with services
Snowpark Container Services is available to accounts in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform commercial regions, with some exceptions.