In the final month of 2023, Snowflake released features around Snowflake Cortex functions, Snowpark ML, cost management and more. Read on to learn more about everything we announced in December. 

Snowpark Enhancements 

GPU-powered compute with Snowpark Container Services – public preview in select AWS regions 

Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps you deploy, manage and scale containerized code, whether it’s a large language model (LLM) or a full-stack app, without having to move data out of Snowflake. Learn more about functionality and region availability here.

Feature engineering, preprocessing, and model training with Snowpark ML Modeling API – general availability

The Snowpark ML Modeling API enables the use of popular Python ML frameworks, such as scikit-learn and XGBoost, for feature engineering and model training without the need to move data out of Snowflake. Learn more here.

Distributed hyperparameter tuning for ML model training – public preview

Snowpark ML provides distributed execution of hyperparameter optimization using scikit-learn’s GridSearchCV and RandomSearchCV methods to accelerate model development on both single node and multiple-node warehouses. Learn more here. 

Advanced Analytics

Forecasting and anomaly detection with Snowflake Cortex ML-based functions – general availability

Snowflake is on a mission to democratize AI and machine learning for all data teams. Now every Snowflake SQL user can generate time series forecasts and detect outliers in their data with Snowflake Cortex Forecasting and Anomaly Detection functions. These simple SQL commands are powered by ML under the hood with the elasticity and near-zero operations of Snowflake’s engine — no ML expertise required. Learn more here. 

Cost Management

Get account-level spend and usage metrics through an intuitive UI – public preview

Customers can go to a single, centralized location in Snowsight called the Cost Management Interface to obtain visibility into cost and price-for-performance metrics for their workloads. As part of the Cost Management Interface, the Account Overview provides admins with account-level spend and usage metrics such as the most expensive queries, while also enabling deeper drill downs into any of the metrics. It further shows how the effective value of a Snowflake credit changes over time. Learn more here. 

Developer Experience

Snowflake brings broader support to Python developers with Snowflake Python API – public preview

The Snowflake Python API is a unified library that seamlessly connects Python with Snowflake workloads. It provides comprehensive APIs for interacting with core Snowflake resources across data engineering, machine learning, and application workloads.

This launch expands the Python API’s capabilities to include Tasks/DAGs, Snowpark Container Services, warehouses, databases, tables and schema.

The Snowpark client empowers data professionals to leverage familiar DataFrame constructs within Python, but managing additional dependencies and scripting database objects in SQL often remains a necessity. The Snowflake Python API bridges this gap, unifying the overall python APIs, and bringing Snowflake closer to delivering a truly first-class, end-to-end Python experience for developers. Learn more here. 

Snowflake Marketplace  

Snowflake customers can tap into Snowflake Marketplace for access to more than 2,300 live, up-to-date and ready-to-query third-party data sets, data services and Snowflake Native Apps all in one place (as of October 31, 2023). Here are all the providers who posted new listings in December:

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​​Forward-Looking Statements

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