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Snowflake blog and product updates.
- Snowflake Blog blogdatasnowflakeengineergovernment ·
Snowflake Lakehouse Supports Managed Apache Iceberg Tables
Snowflake now supports managed Apache Iceberg tables, enabling greater data agency. This integration unifies storage, governance, and semantics, benefiting data engineers and architects managing diverse data assets.
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Snowflake Adaptive Compute for Evolving Workloads
Snowflake's Adaptive Compute dynamically adjusts to workload demands, offering improved performance and operational efficiency. This feature is relevant for organizations seeking to optimize their data platform's resource utilization and cost-effectiveness.
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Snowflake: Enterprise AI Security Controls for Agent Acceleration
Snowflake has released new enterprise-grade AI security controls designed to help organizations safely accelerate AI agents from pilot to production. These controls are built into the Snowflake platform to address the security needs of AI-driven initiatives.
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Snowflake Horizon Context: Governed AI/BI Foundation
Snowflake introduced Horizon Context, a new capability within Horizon Catalog. This feature provides a connected and governed semantic foundation with active context, enabling enhanced AI and BI applications.
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Snowflake CoCo: AI coding agent for data teams
Snowflake CoCo is an AI coding agent designed for data teams, offering various integrations including desktop, mobile, Slack, and cloud agents, alongside async APIs. It is grounded in governed enterprise data, aiming to enhance productivity and collaboration for data professionals.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogaisnowflakegaengineer ·
Snowflake for AI: Enterprise AI Deployment and Governance
Snowflake CoWork (formerly Snowflake Intelligence) enables enterprises to deploy AI agents, train models, automate workflows, and govern AI initiatives at scale. This platform aims to streamline the adoption and management of AI technologies within organizations. It is intended for teams looking to operationalize AI effectively.
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Snowflake CoWork: Personal Work Agent for Knowledge Workers
Snowflake CoWork, formerly Intelligence, is a new personal work agent designed for knowledge workers. It integrates business context, automation, and governed actions across enterprise systems to enhance productivity.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogaisecuritygovernancesnowflake ·
Snowflake Enhances AI Deployability with Context, Governance, and Security
Snowflake is improving enterprise AI deployment by introducing Horizon Context and Horizon Catalog for consistent context and governance. The update also includes AI security enhancements and workload-aware Adaptive Compute, aiming to boost confidence in AI initiatives.
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Snowflake Horizon Catalog: Unify Data Estate with Cross-Platform Governance
Snowflake's Horizon Catalog offers a Metadata Hub to unify your data estate. It enables cross-platform governance controls without requiring data migration, providing a centralized approach to managing data assets.
feature - Snowflake Blog blogaisnowflakeengineer ·
Claude Opus 4.8 available on Snowflake Cortex AI
Claude Opus 4.8 is now accessible via Snowflake Cortex AI, enhancing reasoning and agentic functionalities within Snowflake's secure and governed AI environment. This integration allows users to leverage advanced AI models while maintaining data security and compliance.
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Snowflake Cortex Code powers live finance variance analysis workflow
FP&A teams can now replace static budget vs. actual workbooks with a governed Snowflake application. This new workflow updates in real-time during close, speeding up commentary and eliminating manual rebuilds.
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App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Compute Engine, Document AI Updates
Google Cloud has released several updates across its services. App Engine standard environments now offer improved security and maintainability for Go, Java, PHP, and Python applications with bundled services. Cloud Composer introduces support for Google Cloud tags and enhanced Kubernetes secret management, alongside new Airflow versions and deprecations. Compute Engine introduces new C4A bare metal machine types, and Document AI gains layout parser image and table annotations.
deprecation feature patch announcement - AWS What's New securityawssnowflakeengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager supports Datadog and Snowflake external secrets
AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Datadog keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens. This feature automates the rotation of third-party credentials, enhancing security and operational efficiency for managing sensitive access keys. The update primarily impacts engineers and architects responsible for managing cloud credentials and secrets across multiple services.
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dbt Fusion now available on Snowflake
dbt Fusion is now integrated with Snowflake, offering support for dbt Core 1.11.5 and native Task orchestration. This integration streamlines CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions without additional cost, benefiting users looking to accelerate dbt project builds on Snowflake.
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Snowflake Cortex AI adds multimodal analytics
Snowflake Cortex AI now supports multimodal analytics, enabling users to extract structured insights from video, audio, images, and documents. This feature accelerates decision-making by transforming unstructured data into actionable information. It directly impacts users working with diverse data types who need to derive insights.
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Snowflake Cortex Code for FP&A: Faster Insight
Snowflake's Cortex Code enables FP&A teams to transition from static reporting to near real-time insights. This solution leverages governed data, streamlines workflows, and integrates with connected finance applications for improved financial analysis.
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Snowflake DCM Projects: Declarative Infrastructure with Cortex Code
Snowflake's Cortex Code now supports DCM (Declarative Configuration Management) projects. This feature allows users to scaffold, test, and deploy infrastructure changes declaratively, reducing the need for manual SQL commands like ALTER TABLE.
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Snowflake AI agent backup protection for enterprise data
Snowflake introduces AI agent backup protection to mitigate risks from autonomous system errors. This feature offers immutable backups and disaster recovery capabilities, enhancing data resilience for enterprise deployments. It aims to provide stronger data protection against accidental data loss or corruption caused by AI agents.
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SAP and Snowflake Announce General Availability of Joint AI Offerings
Snowflake and SAP have reached general availability for their integrated enterprise AI offerings. This milestone signifies a deeper collaboration, enabling businesses to leverage AI capabilities across both platforms more seamlessly.
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Google Cloud updates: Apigee, Bigtable, COS, Dialogflow, Gemini, Looker
Google Cloud announced several updates including preview features for Apigee API hub and Gemini Enterprise, and general availability for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Additionally, security patches were applied to Container Optimized OS and Dialogflow, and Looker received numerous bug fixes and new features like Conversational Analytics data agents.
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