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Snowflake · Data and observabilityJul 11, 2026, 17:41 UTC

INC20000085

MinorCapacityUpdated 17h ago
Jul 11, 17:41 UTCJul 11, 19:36 UTC
Duration
1h 55m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Capacity
Snowflake, 90 days
22 incidents
Affected
Virtual WarehousesAWS - US West (Oregon) - Virtual Warehouses
Status page

Final update

Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000085](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000085)

Timeline

  1. Postmortem · Jul 18, 01:40 UTC
    Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000085](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000085)
  2. Resolved · Jul 11, 19:36 UTC
    Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have experienced delays or intermittent failures when resuming or managing virtual warehouses. Existing warehouses that were already running may have been unaffected. Incident start time: 16:35 UTC July 11, 2026 Incident end time: 18:10 UTC July 11, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Resource exhaustion in the binary download service caused delays when virtual warehouses attempted to download required software components during startup. A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be shared on the Snowflake status page within 5 business days.
  3. Monitoring · Jul 11, 18:37 UTC
    Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have experienced delays or intermittent failures when resuming or managing virtual warehouses. Existing warehouses that were already running may have been unaffected. Incident start time: 16:35 UTC July 11, 2026 Incident end time: 18:10 UTC July 11, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Resource exhaustion in the binary download service caused delays when virtual warehouses attempted to download required software components during startup.
  4. Investigating · Jul 11, 17:41 UTC
    Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 1 hour. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience delays or intermittent failures when resuming or managing virtual warehouses. Existing warehouses that are already running may be unaffected. ETA: An ETA is not yet available. We'll provide one as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that affected customers using replication initiate their failover procedures. Incident start time: 16:30 UTC July 11, 2026

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