Snowflake experienced a major incident on September 10, 2025 affecting Databases, Tables, and Views and Virtual Warehouses and 1 more component, lasting 56m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 10, 2025, 12:27 AM UTC
Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 60 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience intermittent delays or failures when accessing or using Snowflake services and features. This may include slower query execution, intermittent availability, or limited feature functionality. Incident start time: 00:00 UTC September 10, 2025
- identified Sep 10, 2025, 12:52 AM UTC
Current status: We're continuing to develop and implement a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 60 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience intermittent delays or failures when accessing or using Snowflake services and features. This may include slower query execution, intermittent availability, or limited feature functionality. 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. Incident start time: 23:55 UTC September 09, 2025
- monitoring Sep 10, 2025, 01:06 AM UTC
Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience intermittent delays or failures when accessing or using Snowflake services and features. This may include slower query execution, intermittent availability, or limited feature functionality. Incident start time: 23:55 UTC September 09, 2025 Incident end time: 00:41 UTC September 10, 2025 Preliminary root cause: The preliminary investigation identified an issue with a sudden workload spike within a specific cluster.
- resolved Sep 10, 2025, 01:23 AM UTC
Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience intermittent delays or failures when accessing or using Snowflake services and features. This may include slower query execution, intermittent availability, or limited feature functionality. Incident start time: 23:55 UTC September 09, 2025 Incident end time: 00:41 UTC September 10, 2025 Preliminary root cause: The preliminary investigation identified an issue with a sudden workload spike within a specific cluster. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be published within seven business days.
- postmortem Sep 19, 2025, 12:09 AM UTC
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/INC0142903](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0142903)