Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview)

PreviewJul 13, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider (Preview). You can configure federated catalogs to query data stored in Snowflake directly from Google Cloud using BigQuery or Apache Spark without migrating data or building complex ETL pipelines. For more information, see Set up cross-cloud Lakehouse for Snowflake .

Topics: SQL, Governance, Data integration, Observability

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