What Happened
Snowflake experienced an outage on August 3, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 6 hours 45 minutes.
Cloud data platform providing data warehousing, data lake, data engineering, and data sharing capabilities across major cloud providers.
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 06:59 | Monitoring | Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers ... |
| 06:58 | Monitoring | Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers ... |
| 06:47 | Identified | Current status: We've identified the source of the issue, and we're developing and implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 1 hour. Customer experience: Customers... |
| 05:53 | Investigating | Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 60 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience int... |
| 18:15 | Monitoring | Current status: We've confirmed that our service has remained stable since 16:35 UTC, following our mitigation action; however, we're continuing to monitor the environment to confirm that the affec... |
| 17:17 | Monitoring | Current status: We have identified that the previously affected Cloud Services component became unhealthy again, which is preventing virtual warehouses from starting or resuming. We've implemented ... |
| 16:42 | Investigating | Current status: While we observed a period of recovery, our telemetry identified a recurrence of impact. We are implementing a mitigation to restore warehouse functionality, and we’ll provide ano... |
| 15:46 | Monitoring | Current status: We have identified an unhealthy Cloud Services component that is preventing virtual warehouses from starting or resuming. We are implementing a fix and will continue to monitor to c... |
| 15:15 | Investigating | Current status: We have so far not identified any recent changes directly contributing to this problem and are currently focused on investigating performance issues affecting the system that contro... |
| 14:39 | Investigating | Current status: We're continuing to investigate the issue with Snowflake Data Cloud, and we're analyzing recent changes and telemetry to determine a mitigation plan. We'll provide another update wi... |
| 14:11 | Investigating | Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may be unable to s... |
| 21:01 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 6 hours 45 minutes. Snowflake runs on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
Snowflake has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
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