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
Applications
Build Faster
- Presentation – Streamlit
- Logic – Snowpark (Container Services – (GA))
- Persistence – Unistore, Hybrid Tables
Ship Securely
Snowpark Container Services with Snowflake Native Apps
Simplify DevOps – Build, Test, Monitor & Operate and Deploy & Release
Monitor & Operate
- Git Integration (PuPr)
- Database Change Management (PuPr)
- Snowflake CLI (GA)
Deploy & Release
Snowflake Trail – Observability
Enterprise AI
- Snowflake Notebooks (PuPr)
- Scheduler Notebooks
- Container Runtimes (PuPr)
- Inline Copilot (PrPr)
- Snowflake Copilot (GA)
ML Development
- Snowpark Pandas API (PuPr)
- Snowpark ML
ML Operations
- Feature Store
- Model Registry
AI for Everyone
Cortex AI – Studio – Chat – Models
Models
- Task
- Serverless Cortex AI Fine-Tuning (PuPr)
- Foundation
Studio
Chat
- Cortex Analyst
- Cortex Search
Snowflake Snowsight will be available as from now in Dark Mode also!
Snowflake also summed up a lot of the announcements here.
Till next time.
Snowflake Data Superhero. Online also known as; DaAnalytics.
