Major incident

Snowflake: INC20000217

Affected: Databases, Tables, and Views, Databases, Tables, and Views, Databases, Tables, and Views, Databases, Tables, and Views, Databases, Tables, and Views, Databases, Tables, and Views

Current status of Snowflake: Minor issues — live Snowflake status

Timeline

1. Sep 14, 2026, 04:48 UTC
   investigating
   Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 1 hour. Customer experience: Customers in the affected regions may experience performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, query execution failures, and errors managing data. 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 no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026
2. Sep 14, 2026, 05:18 UTC
   identified
   Current status: We've identified the source of the issue, and we're developing and implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 1 hour. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the affected deployments may experience performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops. 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 no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026
3. Sep 14, 2026, 05:40 UTC
   monitoring
   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 affected deployments may have experienced performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops. Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026 Incident end time: 05:18 UTC September 14, 2026 Preliminary root cause: An update intended to improve authentication handling caused a subset of single sign-on (SSO) sign-in attempts across multiple regions to fail or loop, preventing affected users from logging in to Snowflake.
4. Sep 14, 2026, 06:09 UTC
   resolved
   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 or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the affected deployments may have experienced performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops. Incident start time: 22:22 UTC September 13, 2026 Incident end time: 05:18 UTC September 14, 2026 Preliminary root cause: An update intended to improve authentication handling caused a subset of single sign-on (SSO) sign-in attempts across multiple regions to fail or loop, preventing affected users from logging in to Snowflake. A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be made available within 5 business days.

Updates as published by Snowflake (original).