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INC20000168

ResolvedmajorOfficial source confirmedSpecific component onlyFirst recorded update Aug 20, 2026, 01:47 PM · Resolved Aug 20, 2026, 03:43 PM

Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000168](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000168)

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Updates (5)

  1. Sep 3, 2026, 08:06 PM
    INC20000168

    Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000168](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000168)

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  2. Aug 20, 2026, 03:43 PM
    INC20000168

    Current status: The third-party cloud platform confirmed that the mitigation was complete, and its automated recovery system appears to have initiated. We independently monitored the environment and verified 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 regions may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity solutions, such as PrivateLink. Other connection methods were unaffected. Incident start t

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  3. Aug 20, 2026, 02:39 PM
    INC20000168

    Current status: We've coordinated with our third-party cloud platform, which has implemented a mitigation for this issue. We will continue to monitor the environment until we're confident that all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity solutions, such as PrivateLink. Other connection methods were unaffected. Incident start time: 13:25 UTC August 20, 2026 Incident end time: 14:10 UTC August 20, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A third-party cloud platform experienced a

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  4. Aug 20, 2026, 02:19 PM
    INC20000168

    Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We've engaged the associated Cloud Service Provider to investigate and troubleshoot this issue further. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity solutions, such as PrivateLink. ETA: An ETA is not yet available. We'll provide one as soon as possible. Incident start time: 13:25 UTC August 20, 2026

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  5. Aug 20, 2026, 01:47 PM
    INC20000168

    Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We've engaged the associated Cloud Service Provider to investigate and troubleshoot this issue further. We'll provide an update within 60 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to connect to Snowflake via private connectivity solutions, such as PrivateLink. ETA: An ETA is not yet available. We'll provide one as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that affected customers using replication initiate their failover procedures. Workaround: There are currently

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