Supported Regions¶
Regions let your organization choose where your data is geographically stored across your regional, national, and international operations. Regions also determine where your compute resources are provisioned.
Snowflake supports multiple regions across the supported cloud platforms.
Important
Each Snowflake account is located in a single region (i.e. multi-region accounts are not supported). If you wish to use Snowflake across multiple regions, you must maintain a Snowflake account in each region.
In this Topic:
List of Regions¶
North America (US and Canada) Regions¶
Snowflake supports the following regions in the US and Canada:
Cloud Platform / Region |
Cloud Region ID |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
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US East (N. Virginia)
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us-east-1 |
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US East (Ohio)
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us-east-2 |
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US West (Oregon)
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us-west-2 |
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Canada (Central)
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ca-central-1 |
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) |
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us-central1 (Iowa)
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us-central1 |
This region is currently in preview. |
Microsoft Azure |
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East US 2
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eastus2 |
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West US 2
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westus2 |
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US Gov Virginia
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usgovvirginia |
This region is offered on Microsoft Azure Government, a dedicated cloud that is available only to U.S. government agencies and their partners, and is operated only by screened U.S. citizens. . . The region is only supported for Snowflake accounts using Business Critical Edition (or higher). |
Canada Central
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canadacentral |
European Union (EU) Regions¶
These regions are supported for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in the European Union. Multiple regions are provided to allow your organization to meet your individual compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
Snowflake supports the following EU regions:
Cloud Platform / Region |
Cloud Region ID |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
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EU (Ireland)
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eu-west-1 |
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EU (Frankfurt)
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eu-central-1 |
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Microsoft Azure |
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West Europe
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westeurope |
Asia Pacific Regions¶
These regions are supported for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in Japan, Southeast Asia, or Australia. Multiple regions are provided to allow your organization to meet your individual compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
Snowflake supports the following Asia Pacific regions, grouped by cloud platform:
Cloud Platform / Region |
Cloud Region ID |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
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Asia Pacific (Singapore)
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ap-southeast-1 |
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Asia Pacific (Sydney)
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ap-southeast-2 |
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Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
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ap-northeast-1 |
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Microsoft Azure |
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Australia East
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australiaeast |
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Southeast Asia
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southeastasia |
Differences Between Regions¶
Snowflake features and services are identical across regions with some exceptions for newly-introduced features (based on cloud platform or region). In addition, 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).
Support Hours (Standard Edition Only)¶
Snowflake supports multiple editions with different levels of service and support.
For Standard Edition, support hours are based on where the region is located:
North America
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time (PST or PDT)
European Union
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Central Europe Time (CEST or CEDT)
Asia Pacific
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Australian Eastern Time (AEST or AEDT)
For all other editions, support hours are 24/7 regardless of the region where the account is located.
Choosing a Region for Your Account¶
You can choose to have an account in a region to address latency concerns and/or provide additional backup and disaster recovery support beyond the standard support provided by Snowflake. Snowflake does not place any restrictions on the region(s) where you choose to locate your account(s).
For US government agencies, Snowflake provides a dedicated region that meets the specific privacy and security requirements of the US government.
Note that regions do not limit user access to Snowflake; they only dictate the geographic location where data is stored and compute resources are provisioned.
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 (in the Snowflake website).
Important
Snowflake does not move data between accounts, so any data in an account in a region will be maintained in this region only unless users explicitly choose to copy, move, or replicate the data.
Specifying Region Information in Your Account Hostname¶
A hostname for a Snowflake account starts with an account name (provided by Snowflake) and ends with the Snowflake domain
(snowflakecomputing.com):
account_name.snowflakecomputing.com
However, note that your full account name may include additional segments that identify the region and cloud platform where your account is hosted.
Account name examples by region
If your account name is xy12345:
Cloud Platform / Region |
Full Account Name |
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AWS |
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US East (N. Virginia)
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US East (Ohio)
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US West (Oregon)
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Canada (Central)
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EU (Ireland)
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EU (Frankfurt)
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Asia Pacific (Singapore)
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Asia Pacific (Sydney)
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Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
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GCP — Preview |
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us-central1 (Iowa)
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Azure |
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East US 2
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West US 2
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US Gov Virginia
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Canada Central
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West Europe
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Australia East
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Southeast Asia
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Important
If either of the following conditions is true, your account name is different than the structure described in this example:
If your Snowflake Edition is VPS, please contact Snowflake Support for details about your account name.
If AWS PrivateLink is enabled for your account, your account name requires an additional
privatelinksegment. For more details, see AWS PrivateLink & Snowflake.