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Snowflake outage: INC20000237

Snowflake reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 25, 2026, 23:00 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 20m.

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Sep 25, 2026, 23:00 UTC
started
Sep 26, 2026, 00:20 UTC
resolved
1h 20m
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Applications
  • Data Loading and Unloading
  • Databases, Tables, and Views
  • Security and Privacy Features
  • Virtual Warehouses
  1. postmortemOct 2, 2026, 23:36 UTC

    Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000237](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000237)

  2. resolvedSep 26, 2026, 00:20 UTC

    Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. Most impact was resolved by 22:59 UTC, with the remaining backlog for scheduled and serverless task execution fully clearing by 23:43 UTC. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may have been unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data, and may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity, such as AWS PrivateLink. Additionally, they may have been unable to continuously stream data into Snowflake using Snowpipe Streaming, and customers using scheduled or serverless tasks may have experienced delayed task execution. Incident start time: 22:35 UTC September 25, 2026 Incident en

  3. monitoringSep 25, 2026, 23:26 UTC

    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 hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may have been unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data, and may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity, such as AWS PrivateLink. Additionally, they may have been unable to continuously stream data into Snowflake using Snowpipe Streaming. Incident start time: 22:35 UTC September 25, 2026 Incident end time: 22:59 UTC September 25, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Our internal metadata database infrastructure in the affected region became unavailable, resulting in connectivity failures across multiple Snowflake services.

  4. investigatingSep 25, 2026, 23:00 UTC

    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 access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may be unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data, and may be unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity, such as AWS PrivateLink. Additionally, they may be unable to continuously stream data into Snowflake using Snowpipe Streaming.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Sep 25, 2026, 23:05 UTCdegraded → partial outage
  • Sep 26, 2026, 00:25 UTCpartial outage → degraded

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Snowflake outage on Sep 25, 2026: INC20000237 · APIStatus.watch