Snowflake Horizon

Built-in governance solution with a unified set of compliance, security, privacy, interoperability and access capabilities in the Data Cloud.

Essential governance without additional configurations or protocols.

Advanced privacy policies and cross-cloud data sharing enable discovery and access of data, apps and more.

Immediately act on data inside and outside your organization.

How It Works

Protect and audit your data with compliance, business continuity, data quality monitoring and lineage:

Secure data on a platform with comprehensive compliance certifications
Replicate and failover databases, shares, role-based access control, governance policies, compute resources, network policies, and more across clouds
Monitor data quality with both out-of-the-box and custom metrics³
Audit data usage through Access History and Schema Change Tracking
Understand the flow of data through object dependencies and lineage

Secure your environment with continuous risk monitoring and protections, RBAC and granular authorization policies:

Safeguard data with built-in platform security capabilities across areas like authentication, encryption, connectivity and networking
Continuously monitor for security risks across clouds based on industry best practices²
Enforce row- and column-level security across clouds with RBAC and policies, eliminating the need to manage multiple versions of the same data

Unlock the value of your sensitive data with advanced privacy policies and data clean rooms:

Identify and tag PII and other sensitive data with Custom Data Classifiers³
Protect sensitive data while retaining analytical value with Aggregation,³ Projection³ and Differential Privacy Policies¹
Easily collaborate on sensitive data with multiple teams inside and outside your organization with Snowflake Native Data Clean Rooms³

Integrate with other Apache Iceberg-compatible catalogs and engines, in addition to data catalog and data governance partners:

Iceberg Tables can be configured to use either Snowflake or an external service as the catalog to track metadata⁴
Pre-built Snowflake integrations by leading data catalog and data governance partners allow customers to maximize existing data investments and better manage their entire data estate

Classify, share, discover and immediately act on data, apps and more across regions and clouds:

Identify and track sensitive data with built-in Automatic Classification,¹ Custom Classification³ and Object Tagging

Collaborate efficiently across teams and business units without ETL or integrations by sharing direct access to live data and Snowflake Native Apps

Discover the rich set of content within your organization, as well as data and apps available on Snowflake Marketplace, with a single Universal Search³
Use natural language powered by LLMs to easily interact with and query data using Snowflake Copilot³