S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors support cross-region and cross-cloud

UpdateJul 28, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

The fully managed Amazon S3 Sink and Snowflake Sink connectors now connect to destinations in a different region or cloud without contacting Confluent Support.

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