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Snowflake sharpens AI and migration playbook while a major outage raises resilience questions
Snowflake has accelerated feature launches, strategic purchases and commercial model partnerships to broaden its AI, observability and migration capabilities, while a late‑2025 platform failure that lasted many hours across multiple regions exposed operational fragility. Recent moves include a multi‑year, roughly $200 million commercial agreement to surface OpenAI models inside the Data Cloud and the rollout of Cortex Code, a data‑aware coding assistant, but integration, governance and reliability will determine whether these advances become durable customer advantages.
