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Planning an external function for GCP
This topic helps you prepare to create an external function for GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using the Google Cloud Console user interface.
SSLError CertificateError when attempting to connect to Snowflake over the account locator URL
CAUSE: In case of such an issue, your client application is configured to connect to a non - existing account name. This causes it to actually connect to the default ingress loadbalancer, which happens to be in AWS us - west - 2.