Supported Cloud Regions¶

North & South America Regions¶

These regions are supported for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in the US, Canada, or Brazil. Multiple regions are provided to allow your organization to meet its individual compliance requirements for general purpose use. Additional US regions are provided for organizations that must comply with US government regulations.

Europe & Middle East Regions¶

These regions are supported for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), or Middle East. Multiple regions are provided to allow your organization to meet its individual compliance and data sovereignty requirements.

Snowflake supports the following European and Middle East regions:

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Asia Pacific Regions¶

These regions are supported for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in Japan, India, Southeast Asia, or Australia. Multiple regions are provided to allow your organization to meet its individual compliance and data sovereignty requirements.

Snowflake supports the following Asia Pacific regions:

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Region Time Zones for Support¶

Snowflake supports multiple editions with each edition offering different levels of service.

Effective May 1, 2020:

• All new accounts, regardless of Snowflake Edition, receive Premier support, which includes 24/7 coverage.

• Standard Edition accounts that were provisioned before this date will continue to receive Standard support until the accounts are transitioned to Premier support.

  Standard support hours are Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM, across all regions, but the time zones vary depending on the geographic location of the region:

  North America

  Pacific Time (PST or PDT)

  Europe & Middle East

  Central Europe Time (CET or CEST)

  Asia Pacific

  Australian Eastern Time (AEST or AEDT)

Differences Between Regions¶

Snowflake features and services are identical across regions except for some newly-introduced features (based on cloud platform or region). However, there are some differences in unit costs for credits and data storage between regions.

Another factor that impacts unit costs is whether your Snowflake account is On Demand or Capacity.

For more information about pricing as it pertains to a specific region and account type, see the pricing page (on the Snowflake website).

Viewing a List of Regions Available for an Organization¶

A organization administrator (i.e. user with the ORGADMIN role) can view a list of regions available for an organization through Snowsight or using SQL:

Snowsight

Select Admin » Accounts » Create New Account » Choose Your Region.

SQL

Execute the SHOW REGIONS command.

Considerations for Choosing a Region for Your Account¶

When you request a Snowflake account, either through self-service or a Snowflake representative, you can choose the region where the account is located. For example, you can decide to locate an account in a particular region on a particular cloud platform to address latency concerns and/or provide additional backup and disaster recovery beyond the standard recovery support provided by Snowflake. Snowflake does not place any restrictions on the region where you choose to locate each account.

If latency is a concern, you should choose the available region with the closest geographic proximity to your end users; however, this may have cost implications, due to pricing differences between the regions. For more details, see the pricing page (on the Snowflake website).

If you are a government agency or a commercial organization that must comply with specific privacy and security requirements of the US government, you can choose between two dedicated government regions provided by Snowflake.

Specifying Region Information in Your Account Hostname¶

A hostname for a Snowflake account starts with an account identifier and ends with the Snowflake domain (snowflakecomputing.com). Snowflake supports two formats to use as the account identifier in your hostname:

• Account name (preferred)

• Account locator