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Snowflake price & licensing changes
4 tracked changes to Snowflake’s pricing, packaging, licensing or support lifecycle.
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- Snowflake 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 - Snowflake: 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 - Snowflake signs agreement to acquire Observe
Snowflake announced a signed definitive agreement to acquire Observe, an AI-powered observability vendor, pending regulatory approval.
M&A - Snowpipe 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.
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