Snowflake Native Apps support for Virtual Private Snowflake on AWS for apps with containers (General availability)

GAJul 28, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.

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