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Snowflake outage: INC20000175

Snowflake reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 25, 2026, 03:53 UTC. It was resolved after 42 min.

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Aug 25, 2026, 03:53 UTC
started
Aug 25, 2026, 04:35 UTC
resolved
42 min
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Applications
  • Databases, Tables, and Views
  1. postmortemSep 3, 2026, 01:17 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/INC20000175](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000175)

  2. resolvedAug 25, 2026, 04:35 UTC

    Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. 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 region may have been unable to access Snowflake services due to infrastructure connectivity issues. All other Snowflake features in other regions were not impacted. Workaround: There were no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 03:09 UTC August 25, 2026 Incident end time: 04:05 UTC August 25, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A third-party cloud platform experienced a virtual machine service issue, which caused infrastructure connectivity problems affecting Snowflake services in the region. A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be shared on the Snowflake status page within 5 business days.

  3. monitoringAug 25, 2026, 04:10 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. We'll provide another update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may have been unable to access Snowflake services due to infrastructure connectivity issues. All other Snowflake features in other regions were not impacted. Workaround: There were no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 03:09 UTC August 25, 2026 Incident end time: 04:05 UTC August 25, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A third-party cloud platform experienced a virtual machine service issue, which caused infrastructure connectivity problems affecting Snowflake services in the region.

  4. investigatingAug 25, 2026, 03:53 UTC

    Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud in the Southeast Asia region. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the Southeast Asia region may be unable to access Snowflake services due to infrastructure connectivity issues. All other Snowflake features in other regions are not impacted. ETA: An ETA is not yet available. We'll provide one as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that affected customers using replication initiate their failover procedures. Workaround: There are currently no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 03:09 UTC August 25, 2026

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Snowflake's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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Snowflake outage on Aug 25, 2026: INC20000175 · APIStatus.watch