Snowflake outage, 21 October 2026

INC20000301

Started
Resolved
21 Oct 2026, 23:29 UTC (after 5 h 3 min)
Impact
Critical
Affected
Databases, Tables, and Views, Virtual Warehouses, Data Loading and Unloading, Applications, Snowpark Container Services, AI and ML

Is this still happening?

No. Snowflake marked this incident resolved on 21 Oct 2026, 23:29 UTC, 5 h 3 min after it began.

Right now: Snowflake reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 26 Oct, 03:47 UTC) Live Snowflake status

Last update from Snowflake

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 or use multiple Snowflake services and features. Affected users may have been unable to sign in, use Snowsight, execute queries, resume virtual warehouses, or ingest files using Snowpipe or Snowpipe Streaming. Scheduled tasks and other automated workloads may also have failed to run or may not start as expected. Impact start time: 17:50 U...

21 Oct 2026, 23:29 UTC

Read the full incident on the official Snowflake status page

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