**INC20000217 – Snowflake Major Incident Summary** A major incident affecting the Snowflake Data Cloud began at 23:35 UTC on September 13, 2026, lasting approximately 6 minutes. Customers experienced performance degradation, delayed sign-ins, query execution failures, and errors managing data within the Snowflake Data Warehouse. The incident was resolved shortly after onset, with replication customers advised to initiate failover procedures during the disruption.
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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 affected deployments may have experienced performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops.
Incident start time: 22:22 UTC September 13, 2026
Incident end time: 05:18 UTC September 14, 2026
Preliminary root cause: An update intended to improve authentication handling caused a subset of single sign-on (SSO) sign-in attempts across multiple regions to fail or loop, preventing affected users from logging in to Snowflake.
A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be made available within 5 business days.
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 affected deployments may have experienced performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops.
Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026
Incident end time: 05:18 UTC September 14, 2026
Preliminary root cause: An update intended to improve authentication handling caused a subset of single sign-on (SSO) sign-in attempts across multiple regions to fail or loop, preventing affected users from logging in to Snowflake.
Current status: We've identified the source of the issue, and we're developing and implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 1 hour.
Customer experience: Customers hosted in the affected deployments may experience performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, and SSO login loops.
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.
Workaround: There are currently no available workarounds for this issue.
Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026
Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 1 hour.
Customer experience: Customers in the affected regions may experience performance degradation or issues logging into Snowflake, including delayed sign-ins, query execution failures, and errors managing data.
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.
Workaround: There are currently no available workarounds for this issue.
Incident start time: 23:35 UTC September 13, 2026
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