On the River with Snowflake Updates: February 2026 Edition
Hey folks, it’s Marcos, here on the river with the latest Snowflake updates flowing downstream. Today we’re covering what’s been happening across business strategy, platform innovation, and technical releases, from the Observe acquisition and platform reliability to Snowflake Postgres, Cortex tooling, Gen2 Warehouses, Iceberg interoperability, and Gemini models in Cortex AI.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro: February 2026 Snowflake updates
0:17 Business: Observe acquisition (observability + reliability)
0:52 Financials: Q3 FY2026 momentum and market reaction
1:15 Reliability: December outage, postmortem, deployment hardening
1:38 Snowflake Postgres (preview): managed PostgreSQL inside Snowflake
2:06 Cortex Code CLI (private preview): natural language in the terminal
2:30 January GA highlights: AI_FILTER, AI_AGG, Document Processing Playground
2:54 Collaboration + auth: Shared Workspaces in Snowsight, OAuth for local apps
3:12 Governance: EU sensitive classification, Tri Secret Secure in China
3:33 Performance: Gen2 Warehouses GA + inequality join pruning
3:56 Open lakehouse: Iceberg expansion, Microsoft Fabric, AWS Glue catalogs
4:12 Partnership: Google Gemini 3 models integrated into Cortex AI
4:18 Summary + sign off
- What you will learn
Snowflake’s biggest strategic moves and what they unlock - The newest AI native developer and analytics capabilities
Governance and compliance updates for global deployments - Major performance improvements in compute and query execution
- Iceberg and open lakehouse interoperability progress
- How Gemini models in Cortex AI impacts enterprise GenAI on governed data
