July 15-17, 2024 — 8.26 Release Notes¶

Estimate the cost of Automatic Clustering — Preview¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce a new system function, SYSTEM$ESTIMATE_AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING_COSTS, that estimates the cost of enabling Automatic Clustering for a table and maintaining the table in a well-clustered state. It can also estimate the cost of changing the clustering key for a clustered table.

For more information, see SYSTEM$ESTIMATE_AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING_COSTS.

New TYPE property for USER —— General availability¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce the new TYPE property for USER. The TYPE property lets you differentiate between service and human users.

For more information, see CREATE USER.

Access to external network locations on AWS in the Gov region — General availability¶

With this release, Snowflake is pleased to announce the general availability of access to external network locations from function and procedure handlers for code deployed in the AWS Gov region. External network access in the Azure Gov region is not supported.

When setting up external network access, you create a network rule that represents the external network location. If your handler code will need to authenticate with the external location, you create a secret containing the credentials needed. In handler code, you can use APIs to retrieve credential values from the secret.

For more information, see External network access overview.

Support for Snowpark Container Services in custom budgets — General availability¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce that custom budgets can now be used to monitor the cost of compute pools associated with Snowpark Container Services.