SNOWFLAKE

🟠 Snowflake's monitoring team discovered a magical definition of 'healthy service' that apparently includes an entire availability zone ghosting them. They've put the region in timeout and are now playing phone tag with their cloud provider while pretending everything's fine. Narrator voice: it was not fine. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Oct 20, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

INC20000294

// Status page says

Oct 20 , 07:49 UTC Update - Current status: Our monitoring has shown healthy service since 06:40 UTC October 20, 2026, but the affected availability zone remains unavailable at our third-party cloud platform provider. We've stopped new workloads from being placed in that zone and paused routine software updates in the region as a precaution. We're continuing to coordinate with the provider to restore the affected infrastructure and t

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/3401d2qn22bp

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🟢 SNOWFLAKE Oct 14, 2026

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🟢 SNOWFLAKE Sep 01, 2026

🟠 Snowflake found the bug hiding in plain sight and is slowly letting customers back in like a bouncer checking IDs. Most folks can login again, but they're taking their sweet time rolling out the fix to everyone else. ETA: another hour of watching the status page like it's a reality show. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Aug 31, 2026

🟠 Snowflake went full 'Elsa had a bad day' across multiple regions, then ungracefully thawed most things back. Snowsight and Streaming still doing their best impression of ghosts. Recovery theater continues. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

🟢 SNOWFLAKE Aug 28, 2026

🟠 Snowflake's Snowpark Container Services ghosted an entire region—turns out their cloud provider's capacity evaporated. They're now playing musical chairs with compute resources, prioritizing Business Critical accounts while everyone else watches from the timeout corner. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)