Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud Platform (2025)

What a year make a difference to the AI Data Cloud, Snowflake! Why do you get the same Snowflake experience whether you’re using a Snowflake account deployed on AWS, on Azure or on GCP? Because Snowflake is really a wrapper for the underlying cloud infrastructure focussed on data. Because cloud infrastructure is designed to scale as much as you need, Snowflake will scale as much as you need and as a service.

You will expect the same database semantics of traditional databases, but because of separation of storage, compute and metadata; Snowflake is uniquely positioned to accelerate both in the number of features and the depth of its processing power. No other platform in the market today can compare to that kind of growth!

Like in previous years, let’s highlight the major additions to the Snowflake AI Data Platform.

Openflow

On 24 November 2024 Snowflake announced the acquisition of Datavolo, a company that developed and maintained Apache Nifi as a service. The extension to Snowflake is profound, this is the first foray of Snowflake into a customer’s virtual private network. Openflow simplifies connectivity to your data landscape with and without Snowflake where you can as a sink and as a source. With this extension, Snowflake can trace the lineage of your data products all the way to…