- Deployment
- hosted
- Hq Country
- United States
- Hq City
- Bozeman
- Ownership
- public
- Founded
- 2012
- Training Default
- never
- Residency Options
- customer-selected region incl. EU (Frankfurt), EU (Zurich), EU (Stockholm), EU (Ireland), EU (Paris), Europe (London), cross-region inference (optional, moves data out of region)
- Gov Access Exposure
- us-cloud-act
- Eu Ai Act Role
- deployer
- Certs
- ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II
- DPA available
- yes
- Retention Default
- Not stated as an inference-specific window in the public Cortex documentation; data stays within the customer's Snowflake account and region.
- Retention Exceptions
- Cross-region inference is the material exception: when enabled, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud appear as subprocessors specifically to serve Cortex requests from other regions, so an EU account's inference can leave the EU by feature flag.
- Subprocessors
- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloudflare
- Subprocessor Count
- 4
- Transfer Mechanism
- sccs
- Eu Procurement Ready
- conditional
- Eu Procurement Reason
- Snowflake states every LLM it offers is deployed inside the Snowflake service perimeter rather than called out to a model vendor's API, which is a genuinely stronger position than the routing model most platforms use, and six European regions are selectable with AWS EMEA SARL (Luxembourg) as the contracting entity. The sub-processor table is precise about which entity serves which region and under what transfer mechanism. Cross-region inference undoes the residency guarantee when switched on, and Snowflake Inc. remains US-domiciled.
- Training Claim Basis
- inferred
- Training Confidence
- medium
- Residency Claim Basis
- stated
- Residency Confidence
- high
- Retention Claim Basis
- inferred
- Retention Confidence
- low
- Subprocessors Claim Basis
- stated
- Subprocessors Confidence
- high
- Residency Class
- eu-selectable
- Portability / Exit Path
- serves-open-models
- Subprocessor Jurisdiction
- mixed
- Underlying model providers
- Anthropic, Meta (Llama), Mistral AI, OpenAI, Snowflake (Arctic)
