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
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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 blogaisnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Claude Opus 5 available in public preview on Snowflake Cortex AI
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model is now accessible in public preview through Snowflake Cortex AI. This integration brings advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities to Snowflake's secure, governed AI platform. The feature is available for users to explore ahead of general availability.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogaisnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Snowflake Cortex Sense Enhances Enterprise AI Agents with Automatic Context
Snowflake is launching Cortex Sense, a new private preview feature designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of AI agents by automatically building a contextual understanding of enterprise data. Unlike static semantic views, Cortex Sense dynamically models the entire business using signals like query history and BI metrics, addressing gaps in existing documentation and handling new data. This aims to reduce incorrect or speculative AI-generated answers for a broad range of users, from product managers to data scientists, across various cloud platforms.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogaisnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Claude Sonnet 5 available on Snowflake Cortex AI in private preview
Snowflake announced the private preview availability of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 model on Snowflake Cortex AI. This integration allows users to leverage Sonnet 5's enhanced coding, debugging, and agentic capabilities within Snowflake's secure environment. The model offers improved performance for tasks like data analysis, code generation, and long-running agentic workflows, impacting data engineers, analysts, and developers.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogdatasnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Snowflake Integrates Postgres for Unified Apps, Analytics, and AI
Snowflake is introducing Snowflake Postgres, a new solution designed to bridge the gap between transactional applications and analytical workloads, eliminating the need for complex ETL pipelines. Announced features include data mirroring for real-time replication and 'Postgres for your data lake' for flexible data synchronization with open formats like Iceberg. These capabilities aim to provide businesses with consistent, up-to-date data for AI and real-time applications, impacting teams managing both OLTP and OLAP systems.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogdatasnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Snowflake Hybrid Tables See Major Performance and Cost Improvements
Snowflake has significantly boosted the performance of Hybrid Tables, offering up to 8x faster point lookups and 10x faster batch writes with 10x lower cost, based on internal benchmarks. These enhancements aim to consolidate transactional and analytical workloads, eliminating the need for separate OLTP databases and reducing complexity for AI applications and workflow state management. The improvements, which will be enabled by default for all Hybrid Tables workloads, also include the elimination of request credit billing, resulting in average cost reductions of 15%.
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