Understand limitations in the Snowflake Native App Framework¶

Known limitations¶

Snowflake Native Apps have the following known limitations:

• Temporary tables or stages are not supported.

• Some Streamlit features are not supported. See Unsupported Streamlit Features for details.

• Snowflake Native Apps do not support failover for business continuity. For example, adding an application package to a replication group or failover group is not supported.

Known limitations in Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Services¶

Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Services have the following limitations:

• Apps with containers are only supported on specific AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud commercial regions. See Support for private connectivity, VPS, and government regions for information on support for private connectivity, VPS, and government regions.

• Sessions used in connections from containers, for example using the Python connector, are limited to the application owner role. See Snowpark Container Services: Additional considerations for services and jobs for additional information.

• A maximum of 15 compute pools per application is allowed.

• Cross-Cloud Auto-Fulfillment is only supported on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure (preview) with the following limitation:

  • There is a 100GB limit for each file within the image repository.

• Using the LOG_LEVEL, TRACE_LEVEL, and METRIC_LEVEL properties in the manifest file to set the logging and trace level for a container is not supported. Instead, use the spec.logExporters property in the service specification file.

  See spec.logExporters field (optional) for more information.

Support for private connectivity, VPS, and government regions¶

The following tables list Snowflake Native App support for private connectivity, Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS), and government regions on the cloud platform that Snowflake supports:

Amazon Web Services

	Amazon Web Services	AWS PrivateLink	Virtual Private Snowflake	Government regions
Snowflake Native App Framework (without containers)	Generally available	Generally available	Generally available	Generally available
Snowflake Native App Framework (with containers)	Generally available	Generally available	Not yet supported	Preview

Microsoft Azure

	Microsoft Azure	Microsoft Azure Private Link	Virtual Private Snowflake	Government regions
Snowflake Native App Framework (without containers)	Generally available	Generally available	Not yet supported	Generally available
Snowflake Native App Framework (with containers)	Generally available	Generally available	Not yet supported	Not yet supported

Google Cloud

	Google Cloud	Google Cloud Private Service Connect	Virtual Private Snowflake
Snowflake Native App Framework (without containers)	Generally available	Not yet supported	Not yet supported
Snowflake Native App Framework (with containers)	Preview	Not yet supported	Not yet supported

Known issue with AWS and Azure PrivateLink¶

Links in email notifications from apps do not correctly link into a private link accounts.

Limitations on Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services¶

Apps with containers do not support the Google Cloud GCP ME-CENTRAL2 region.

Limitations on Snowflake Native Apps in government regions¶

The following limitations apply to Snowflake Native App support for government regions:

Limitations on Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS)¶

The following limitations apply to Snowflake Native App support for Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS):

• Snowflake Native Apps and Streamlit are not enabled by default in Virtual Private Snowflake. To use Snowflake Native Apps or Streamlit in VPS, contact Snowflake Support.

• If Streamlit is not enabled in the VPS deployment, consumers cannot use the Python Permission SDK to manage privileges and references.

• Sharing an app from a VPS account to an account outside the VPS is only supported within the same organization. To share an app outside the current organization, contact Snowflake Support.

• Only private listings are supported for applications published inside the VPS.

• Consumers in the VPS can enable event sharing for an app. However, log messages and trace events are not shared unless the provider has an event table within the VPS.

• Because the Snowflake Marketplace interface is not available in VPS, providers and consumers must manage listings by using SQL. For additional information, see About managing listings using SQL.