Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming

Name: Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming
Brand: Snowflake

Continuous data ingestion into Snowflake from cloud storage (file-based Snowpipe) or directly from row-level streams (Snowpipe Streaming) with sub-10s latency and serverless compute

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Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ

USBozeman, USA

Subject to CLOUD Act, FISA-702, DPF

Region locations

APACEUUKUSOther27 regions across 5 jurisdictions

Sovereign option

Yes — 2 sovereign-flagged regions available

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Sub-services (3)

Snowpipe (file-based)

Continuous COPY from S3, Azure Blob, or GCS as files arrive

Snowpipe Streaming

Direct row-level ingestion via Java SDK with sub-10s latency

Kafka Connector

Streaming ingest from Apache Kafka topics

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPR SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA PCI DSS FedRAMP

Where this runs

27 regions

11 countries

2sovereign

Sovereign regions (2)

US East (Commercial Gov - N. Virginia) · AshburnSnowflake on AWS FedRAMP Moderate / DoD IL4 (US)
US Gov West 1 (VPS) · San Francisco Bay AreaSnowflake on AWS GovCloud (FedRAMP High)

Commercial regions (25)

Europe (8)

EU (Frankfurt)
EU (Ireland)
North Europe (Ireland)
West Europe (Netherlands)
Europe West 4 (Netherlands)
Europe (London)
UK South (London)
Europe West 2 (London)

North America (10)

Canada (Central)
Canada Central
US East (N. Virginia)
US East 4 (Virginia)
East US 2 (Virginia)
US East (Ohio)
US Central 1 (Iowa)
Central US (Iowa)
US West (Oregon)
West US 2 (Washington)

South America (1)

South America (São Paulo)

Asia (4)

Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Southeast Asia (Singapore)

Oceania (2)

Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Australia East (Sydney)

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Pricing

Pricing model:per-credit