Supported Regions¶
Snowflake lets 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 for all supported cloud platforms.
You can choose to have multiple accounts in separate regions to address global latency concerns and/or provide additional backup and disaster recovery support beyond the standard support provided by Snowflake. 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.
Important
Each Snowflake account is located in a single region (i.e. multi-region accounts are not supported).
In addition, Snowflake does not yet support accessing or sharing data between regions. If you wish to use Snowflake across multiple regions, you must maintain a separate Snowflake account in each region.
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List of Regions¶
Snowflake currently supports the following regions, with more planned for the future:
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
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US West (Oregon)
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Required only when configuring AWS PrivateLink for accounts in US West. |
US East (N. Virginia)
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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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East US 2
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US Gov Virginia
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Available only for accounts on Business Critical (or higher). |
Canada Central
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West Europe
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Australia East
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Southeast Asia
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Note
Snowflake features and services are identical across regions; however, there are some differences in unit costs for credits and data storage. In addition, 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).
North American (US and Canada) Regions¶
Snowflake supports the following regions in the US and Canada:
- AWS
US West (Oregon)
US East (N. Virginia)
Canada (Central)
- Azure
East US 2
US Gov Virginia
Canada Central
- Support hours
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time (PST or PDT)
(applies only to Snowflake Standard Edition; all other editions have 24/7 support)
If your account is hosted on AWS and latency is a concern, you should choose the available region with the closest geographic proximity to your end users.
Note
US Gov Virginia is offered on Microsoft Azure Government, a dedicated cloud that is operated by screened U.S. citizens and is available only to U.S. government agencies and their partners.
The US Gov Virginia region supports Snowflake accounts using Business Critical Edition (or higher).
European Union (EU) Regions¶
Snowflake supports the following EU regions:
- AWS
EU (Ireland)
EU (Frankfurt)
- Azure
West Europe
- Support hours
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Central Europe Time (CEST or CEDT)
(applies only to Snowflake Standard Edition; all other editions have 24/7 support)
These regions are provided for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in the European Union. Multiple regions are provided to allow organizations to meet their individual compliance and data sovereignty requirements. Snowflake does not move data between accounts, so any data in an account in an EU region will be maintained in this region only, unless explicitly copied or moved by users.
If latency is a concern, you should choose the available EU 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).
Asia Pacific Regions¶
Snowflake provides the following Asia Pacific regions:
- AWS
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
- Azure
Australia East
Southeast Asia
- Support hours
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM Australian Eastern Time (AEST or AEDT)
(applies only to Snowflake Standard Edition; all other editions have 24/7 support)
These regions are provided for organizations that prefer or require their data to be stored in Southeast Asia or Australia. Snowflake does not move data between accounts, so any data in an account in an Asia Pacific region will be maintained in this region only, unless explicitly copied or moved by users.
Specifying Region Information in Your Hostname¶
A hostname for a Snowflake account starts with an account name (provided by Snowflake) and ends with the Snowflake domain (snowflakecomputing.com).
However, depending on the region and cloud platform (AWS or Azure) where your account is hosted, your full account name may include additional segments, as shown in the following diagram:
For example, if your account name is xy12345:
Snowflake Region
Full Account Name
AWS
xy12345
xy12345.us-east-1
xy12345.ca-central-1
xy12345.eu-west-1
xy12345.eu-central-1
xy12345.ap-southeast-1
xy12345.ap-southeast-2Azure
xy12345.east-us-2.azure
xy12345.us-gov-virginia.azure
xy12345.canada-central.azure
xy12345.west-europe.azure
xy12345.australia-east.azure
xy12345.southeast-asia.azure
Important
If either of the following conditions is true, your account name is different than the structure described above:
If your Snowflake Edition is VPS, please contact Snowflake Support for your account name details.
If AWS PrivateLink is enabled for your account, your account name requires an additional
privatelinksegment. For more details, see AWS PrivateLink & Snowflake.