June 10, 2024 — Iceberg tables — General Availability¶

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Iceberg tables for Snowflake, released with Snowflake version 8.20.

Iceberg tables for Snowflake combine the performance and query semantics of regular Snowflake tables with external cloud storage that you manage. They are ideal for maintaining a single copy of data with interoperability across a variety of compute engines.