Snowflake Data Cloud Summit – Day II

The second day of Snowflake Summit in the Moscone Center in San Francisco started with Platform Keynote packed with announcements and demo’s. The announcements were not necessarily completely new, but a continuation of things Snowflake was already working on. Lot’s of Developments and Previews have made it to GA status and are now Generally Available to the public. A few announcements were made as wel.

This blogpost a summarization of my notes with were possible a link to Snowflake publications or documentation.

Platform Keynote Notes

Technology should serve and be simple. One product and one engine. Ease of use and Govenance. Maximum efficiency and maximum simplicity.

5 essentials for the AI Data Cloud

Data
Elastic and on demand
Acces to models
Unified Governance
Share and access Cross-Cloud and Cross-Region

Data Complete – All Data (Structured, Semi-Structured and Un-Structure), Unistore (Hybrid Tables) and Iceberg Tables

Compute Complete – CPU’s and GPU’s on-demand. separate and independent. Snowpark for non SQL. Snowpark Container Services

Enterprise AI – Cortex AI – Snowflake Artic

Security & Governance – Snowflake Horizon

Global Collaborations – Cross Cloud, Cross Region – Data, Services and Apps

Strengthen Data Foundation –

Data on your Terms

Document AI (GA) – Ask questions in Natural Language and validate the answer – Arctic-TILT
Ingestion for Document AI (Public Preview)
Streaming & Batch – Dynamic Tables (GA)
Serverless Tasks Flex
Flexibele Architecture (Lakehouse, Mesh, etc.) – Iceberg Tables (GA) – Polaris Catalog
Snowflake & Microsoft – Two way Interoperability – One Lake supports as Iceberg Tables

Discovery and Governance

Snowflake Horizon – Blog

Access – Universal Search (GA) – Internal Marketplace (PrP) – Uniform Listing Locators
Know – Data Classification Interface – Custom Classification – Auto Classification – Automatic Tag Propagation – Object Insights
Security – Trust Center (GA)
Compliance – Data Quality Monitoring (GA) – Data Lineage – ML Lineage

Performance & Control – Snowflake Performance Index – Cost Management Dashboard