Engineering
Cortex AI Gateway: Snowflake's agent governance layer
Governing 100+ MCP servers, Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway centralizes AI agent access and cost, but most features are still in private preview.
Governance
RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, and tags: locking Snowflake down without grinding the data team to a halt.
Snowflake
Snowflake tag-based data protection policies: a governance shift
Snowflake tag-based data protection policies entered public preview on July 21, 2026, letting you attach row access, aggregation, projection, and join policies to tags. Objects with the tag auto-inherit the policy, cutting policy attachments from thousands to one per group.
Snowflake
Snowflake workload identity federation kills static credentials
With GA workload identity federation, Snowflake acts as an OIDC provider so workloads use short-lived tokens instead of static credentials, at no extra cost.
Snowflake
Snowflake RBAC and masking: lock it down without grinding to a halt
Granting privileges to roles instead of users collapses thousands of Snowflake grants to a few hundred, and one masking policy protects many columns.