Warehouses & lakehouses
12 tracked changes across 13 tools.
Upcoming & at renewal
- SAPSAP BW 7.5 mainstream maintenance ends
Mainstream maintenance for SAP BW 7.5 ends December 31, 2027, with extended maintenance available through 2030.
End of support - SAPSAP BW 7.5 extended maintenance ends
Extended maintenance for SAP BW 7.5, BI Java based Broadcasting and BEx Query Designer ends December 31, 2030.
End of support - Microsoft FabricFabric capacity overage (preview) billed at 3x pay-as-you-go
Fabric adds an opt-in preview where capacity overage is billed at 3x the pay-as-you-go rate rather than throttled, subject to admin-set 24-hour limits.
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- DatabricksAzure Databricks Standard tier ends; workspaces auto-upgrade to Premium
Standard tier workspaces on Azure Databricks reach end of life on Oct 1, 2026, and remaining ones are auto-upgraded to Premium.
SKU retired - DatabricksDatabricks acquires Row Zero (governed spreadsheets for Genie)
Databricks announced it has acquired Row Zero, which will be integrated with Genie and made available to all Databricks customers across all major clouds.
M&A - SnowflakeSnowflake blocks password sign-in for all remaining legacy service users
Non-human users are blocked from password authentication, and existing LEGACY_SERVICE users are migrated to TYPE=SERVICE.
End of support - SnowflakeSnowflake: new service users can no longer use passwords (LEGACY_SERVICE blocked)
After enforcement, new non-human users must be TYPE=SERVICE, and LEGACY_SERVICE is invalid in CREATE USER or ALTER USER.
End of support - Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift DC2 nodes retired April 23, 2026
DC2 node type feature development stops at release P191, and DC2 clusters retire on April 23, 2026 on the LTM track; customers should move to Serverless or RA3.
End of support - DatabricksNew Azure Databricks workspaces must be Premium tier
Starting April 1, 2026, new Azure Databricks workspaces can only be created on the Premium tier.
SKU retired - SnowflakeSnowflake signs agreement to acquire Observe
Snowflake announced a signed definitive agreement to acquire Observe, an AI-powered observability vendor, pending regulatory approval.
M&A - SnowflakeSnowpipe switches to a flat 0.0037 credits per GB
Snowpipe billing switches from per-second/per-core compute plus per-1,000-files fee to a fixed 0.0037 credits per GB ingested, applied automatically.
Billing - DatabricksDatabricks on AWS Standard tier reached end of life
Standard tier workspaces on Databricks on AWS were end-of-life'd, with customers required to upgrade to Premium or Enterprise by October 1, 2025.
SKU retired