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Snowflake outage: Azure - UK South (London): INC0156355

Snowflake reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 29, 2026, 03:23 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 21m.

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Apr 29, 2026, 03:23 UTC
started
Apr 29, 2026, 04:44 UTC
resolved
1h 21m
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • Snowpark Container Services
  1. postmortemMay 7, 2026, 02:26 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/INC0156355](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0156355)

  2. resolvedApr 29, 2026, 04:44 UTC

    <b>Current status:</b> We identified a subset of infrastructure that was unhealthy. We restarted that infrastructure and monitored the environment to confirm that the service has been restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. <b>Customer experience:</b> Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience errors or connectivity issues when using Snowpark Container Services. Openflow users may be unable to access their runtimes, and Openflow Connectors may fail to pull data from sources or push data to Snowflake. <b>Incident start time:</b> 02:05 UTC April 29, 2026 <b>Incident end time:</b> 04:11 UTC April 29, 2026 <b>Preliminary root cause:</b> A subset of infrastructure that processes DNS requests in the affected region became unhealthy, which caused service connectivity failures for Snowpark Container Services and Openflow. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be p

  3. monitoringApr 29, 2026, 04:27 UTC

    <b>Current status:</b> 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. <b>Customer experience:</b> Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience errors or connectivity issues when using Snowpark Container Services. Openflow users may be unable to access their runtimes, and Openflow Connectors may fail to pull data from sources or push data to Snowflake. <b>Incident start time:</b> 02:05 UTC April 29, 2026 <b>Incident end time:</b> 04:11 UTC April 29, 2026 <b>Preliminary root cause:</b> A subset of infrastructure that processes DNS requests in the affected region became unhealthy, which caused service connectivity failures for Snowpark Container Services and Openflow.

  4. investigatingApr 29, 2026, 03:53 UTC

    <b>Current status:</b> We're continuing to investigate the issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide another update within 30 minutes. <b>Customer experience:</b> Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience errors or connectivity issues when using Snowpark Container Services. Openflow users may be unable to access their runtimes, and Openflow Connectors may fail to pull data from sources or push data to Snowflake. <b>Incident start time:</b> 02:05 UTC April 29, 2026

  5. investigatingApr 29, 2026, 03:23 UTC

    <b>Current status:</b> We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. <b>Customer experience:</b> Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience errors or connectivity issues when using Snowpark Container Services. Openflow users may be unable to access their runtimes, and Openflow Connectors may fail to pull data from sources or push data to Snowflake. <b>Incident start time:</b> 02:05 UTC April 29, 2026

What APIStatus.watch saw

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