Feature
Snowflake Openflow
Move data effortlessly and scale with confidence for all your integration needs, in one single platform.
Free up data movement
Get ultimate interoperability with any connector your business demands.
Lay the groundwork for AI
Unlock ETL pipelines to empower AI agents to make decisions at machine speed, leaving no data behind.
Scale across the enterprise
Build scalable, enterprise-ready integration with flexible deployment, data observability and governance.
Build with limitless interoperability
Connect data from any source to any destination
- With interconnectivity at its heart, Openflow facilitates open and interoperable architecture. Move data to your choice of data lakes and lakehouses, and easily adapt to new industry standards such as Apache Iceberg.
- Openflow unifies structured and unstructured, batch and streaming data movement into a single platform with support of connectors across SaaS, OLTP databases, event streams, files storages and much more.
- Hundreds of connectors and processors are ready to go out-of-the-box, radically simplifying and speeding up the development of data integration.
- Powered by Apache NiFi, Openflow is inherently open and extensible. Data engineers can build custom connectors in minutes and run seamlessly on Snowflake’s managed platform.
Empower AI
Turbocharge ETL for AI
Openflow connects all data to AI with near-real-time, bi-directional data flows, so all agents can collaborate, share context and make decisions at machine speed.
Openflow easily connects to multi-modal data directly from the source, including SharePoint, Slack, Box and Google Drive.
Openflow is governed and secure by design. Complying with source system access control list (ACL), Openflow carries consistent user permissions with the source.
Communicate in near-real time and bi-directionally with streaming and continuous data movement (via HTTP listeners and publishers).
Built-in Snowflake Cortex capabilities can parse and pre-process the unstructured files before writing to Snowflake — all in one platform.
Simplify operations
Scale with confidence
Openflow is a managed service that gives customers full control over where their integration pipelines run, and still get the ease of use, governance and transparency with Snowflake’s enterprise-grade features.
You decide where to deploy integration pipelines: via Snowflake-managed infrastructure or bring your own cloud (BYOC) within your VPCs for your most critical data sources closer to your private systems.
Reduce operational burden no matter where your pipeline is deployed because Openflow is managed by Snowflake.
Know where your data and pipelines come from — and what happens to them — every step of the way thanks to full data observability.
Get enterprise-grade governance, such as advanced RBAC.
Snowflake Openflow Overview
Powered by open source
Openflow supercharges Apache NiFi with enterprise-ready governance, security, deployment flexibility and observability.
Openflow connectors
Highly curated, managed, secured and governed against source systems, Openflow connectors are easily extensible and customizable with processor components.
Openflow Service and API
Openflow service and API runs in Snowflake as a managed service, allowing customers to provision and manage data pipelines easily with an intuitive UI. Customers get a unified user experience with deep observability, including real-time monitoring and alerts, DAG visualization and refresh history information.
Deployment and runtime
Customers will run the Openflow connectors and pipelines in the environment. Customers can execute in their own VPC via bring your own cloud (BYOC), generally available in AWS, or in Snowflake Snowpark Container Services (SPCS)*, both managed by Snowflake.
“We have hundreds of SQL Server databases. Snowflake Openflow will make it effortless to replicate data across clouds and regions. But we are also excited about what it can deliver for AI and prepare us to be ready for the future.”
David Libesman
SVP & GM, AI & Data Analytics, WorkWave
"Snowflake Openflow connector for Kafka will allow us to establish the advanced data processing fabric necessary to perform sophisticated in-flight transformations on high-velocity data and to dynamically route events to different Snowflake tables."
Venkat Kotla
Chief Technology Officer, Securonix
Openflow Partners
Snowflake Openflow
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers here about Snowflake Openflow features, Apache NiFi, and how it can streamline your data pipelines.
Snowflake Openflow is a managed integration service built on Apache NiFi. It's designed to connect virtually any data source to any destination, supporting structured and unstructured data and running in your own cloud environment for complete control.
Snowflake Openflow is built on Apache NiFi, leveraging its robust data flow capabilities. This means you can use familiar NiFi processors and controller services, alongside Snowflake-specific components, including advanced governance and control, observability, and option to run and deploy integration in your cloud or via Snowflake managed Snowpark Container Services, with both services managed by Snowflake.
Openflow is designed to handle a wide array of data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured (text, images, audio, video, sensor data). It offers connectors for various SaaS platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Meta Ads, SharePoint, Box), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), streaming services (Kafka, Kinesis), and more.
Openflow facilitates the near real-time ingestion of multimodal and unstructured data from sources like Google Drive or SharePoint. The connectors provide built-in capabilities to extract, preprocess (using Snowflake Cortex LLM functions), load and activate unstructured data directly in the ETL pipeline. This makes the data readily available for AI processing and applications, such as building "chat with your data" experiences using Snowflake Cortex AI.
Snowflake Openflow is a managed service that offers customers options to run either via Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) or via Snowflake’s Snowpark Container Services (SPCS). With BYOC, customer-run integration within your own cloud environment (initially available in AWS commercial regions, deployed in your VPC). This gives you more control over your data and network, while Snowflake manages the Openflow service itself, including the UI, observability, and APIs for deploying and managing runtimes. With SPCS (currently in private preview), all deployments and runtimes are managed by Snowflake.
As of June 3rd, 2025, Snowflake Openflow BYOC is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and SPCS is in private preview.
