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 selected cloud platform.

A Snowflake account can be hosted on any of the following cloud platforms:

On each platform, Snowflake provides one or more regions where the account is provisioned.

If your organization’s other cloud services are already hosted on one of these platforms, you can choose to host all your Snowflake accounts on the same platform. However, you can also choose to host your accounts on a different platform.

Note

The cloud platform you choose for each Snowflake account is completely independent from your other Snowflake accounts. In fact, you can choose to host each Snowflake account on a different platform, although this may have some impact on data transfer billing when loading data.

Pricing

Differences in unit costs for credits and data storage are calculated by region on each cloud platform. For more information about pricing as it pertains to a specific region and platform, see the pricing page (on the Snowflake website).

Data Loading

Snowflake supports loading data from files staged in any of the following locations, regardless of the cloud platform for your Snowflake account:

  • Internal (i.e. Snowflake) stages

  • Amazon S3

  • Google Cloud Storage

  • Microsoft Azure blob storage

Snowflake supports both bulk data loading and continuous data loading (Snowpipe). Likewise, Snowflake supports unloading data from tables into any of the above staging locations.

For more information, see Loading Data into Snowflake.

Note

Some data transfer billing charges may apply when loading data from files staged across different platforms. For more information, see Understanding Data Transfer Cost.

HITRUST CSF Certification

This certification enhances Snowflake’s security posture in regulatory compliance and risk management, and is applicable to Snowflake editions that are Business Critical (or higher). For more information, see Snowflake Security and Trust Center.

Partner Applications

Many partner applications work with Snowflake accounts. For more information, refer to Snowflake ecosystem.

Current Limitations for Accounts on GCP

We strive to provide the same Snowflake experience regardless of the cloud platform you choose for your account; however, some services and features are currently unavailable (or have limited availability) for Snowflake accounts hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Google Cloud Private Service Connect

See the considerations and limitations sections for Google Cloud Private Service Connect & Snowflake.

Note that following Snowflake system functions for self-service management are not supported for Google Cloud Private Service Connect for your Snowflake account on GCP:

Private Connectivity to Internal Stages

Private connectivity to Snowflake internal stages is currently not supported on GCP.

Current Limitations for Accounts on Azure

We strive to provide the same Snowflake experience regardless of the cloud platform you choose for your account; however, some services and features are currently unavailable (or have limited availability) for Snowflake accounts hosted on Microsoft Azure.

Snowflake Clients

Currently, using the account name URL format for private connectivity to the Snowflake service with SnowSQL, connectors and drivers is not supported. As a workaround, use the account locator format with SnowSQL, connectors, and drivers.

For details, see:

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