Snowflake Releases
Snowflake blog and product updates. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 86 Snowflake releases · Updated
- Snowflake Blog blogobservabilitysnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Snowflake Observe on Iceberg enters private preview
Snowflake's Observe service, built on Apache Iceberg, is now in private preview. This allows users to store telemetry data as open Iceberg tables in their own S3 buckets, making it accessible to any query engine. This move aims to enhance open observability for telemetry data.
announcement feature - Snowflake Blog blogaiobservabilitysnowflakeengineer ·
Whatnot details AI-powered observability and analytics on Snowflake
Live-shopping platform Whatnot shared its strategy for achieving hyper-growth with enhanced data observability and AI-driven analytics on Snowflake. This approach enables decentralized data teams while maintaining visibility and cost control, powered by Snowflake Cortex Agents for conversational analytics. The solution is now being extended to external sellers via the Whatnot Seller Hub, with significant internal adoption reported.
announcement feature - Snowflake Blog blogaigovernanceobservabilitysnowflakeengineer ·
Snowflake Well-Architected Framework Enhanced for AI Era
Snowflake has updated its Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to better support AI and data workloads, addressing challenges in governance, observability, and cost control. New features include cross-cutting lenses for domain-specific concerns, automated assessments via Snowflake CoCo skills, and guided implementation through Blueprint Manager. These enhancements enable organizations to continuously assess and improve their Snowflake environments for better security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization, particularly for AI initiatives.
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