On the River with Snowflake Updates: May 2026 Edition
Hey folks, it’s Marcos back on the river with the latest Snowflake updates flowing downstream.
This month brings major momentum around enterprise AI agents, Cortex Code expansion, open lakehouse interoperability, and new innovations shaping how organizations interact with data across the modern enterprise.
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Marcos On The River Snowflake Updates – Expedition May
Timestamps
0:00 Intro: May 2026 Snowflake updates
0:26 Cortex Code Expansion: Support for AWS Glue, Databricks, PostgreSQL, DBT, and Apache Airflow
0:50 Adoption Growth: 50% of Snowflake customers already using Cortex Code
1:04 Developer Productivity: VS Code extension and Claude Code integrations
1:22 DBT & Agentic Development: AI generated DBT models, SQL optimization, and workflow automation
1:44 AI Governance: Snowflake native Cortex Agents evaluation framework using SQL and YAML
2:06 SAP Integration Strategy: Governed zero copy access to SAP data for enterprise AI
2:29 Open Lakehouse & Iceberg: Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric interoperability now generally available
2:52 Lakehouse Expansion: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for external volumes
3:08 The Agentic Enterprise: Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code as the orchestration layer for enterprise AI agents
3:23 AI Architecture Shift: Cortex Analyst deprecation and movement toward flexible agentic frameworks
4:03 Snowflake Summit 2026: AI agents, interoperability, and platform innovation highlights
4:36 Performance & Compute: Spark benchmark discussions and Snowpark optimization
5:01 Enterprise AI Momentum: Open lakehouse acceleration and governed AI infrastructure trends
5:24 Summary + Sign-off
What you will learn
- Cortex Code expansion across AWS Glue, Databricks, PostgreSQL, dbt, and Apache Airflow
- Enterprise AI agents and conversational analytics across the modern data ecosystem
- Open lakehouse interoperability with Microsoft Fabric, Apache Iceberg, and SAP integrations
- New innovations driving governance, developer productivity, and enterprise AI adoption
- The latest Snowflake platform announcements heading into Summit 2026
