Data movement policies (General availability)

GAAug 19, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

With this release, data movement policies are now generally available for Enterprise Edition (or higher). Data movement policies are part of Snowflake’s data exfiltration protection controls. These SQL-style conditional policies can help you limit, alert on, or block data movement operations based on specific movement types.

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