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Snowflake Destination Enhancements: 10x Faster, 95% Cheaper

Charles Giardina

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October 27, 2025

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2 min

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We just completed a major overhaul of our Snowflake destination, and the results are even better than we hoped for!

Why This Matters

Snowflake is one of Airbyte's largest destinations, both by destination count and active connections. Thousands of teams rely on it to power their analytics, AI/ML models, and operational workflows. When performance or cost becomes a bottleneck at this scale, it affects real businesses trying to move fast.

That's why we made Snowflake optimization a priority. And the impact speaks for itself.

The Results

Up to 10x faster syncs
We rebuilt the underlying loading mechanism to take full advantage of Snowflake's native bulk loading capabilities. What used to take hours now completes in minutes. For teams running time-sensitive pipelines or feeding real-time dashboards, this changes everything.

95%+ cost reduction
This was the big one. By moving to direct loading and optimizing how we handle compute, and storage, we've essentially eliminated the cost overhead that used to come with high-volume Snowflake syncs.

The team put in serious work to make this happen, rethinking how we batch, stage, and load data to squeeze every bit of efficiency out of the pipeline. Read more about direct loading here.

What This Means for You

If you're running Snowflake at scale, you now get:

Faster data availability for downstream consumers
Predictable, dramatically lower infrastructure costs
The same reliability and governance you expect from Airbyte

This isn't just a feature update. It's a fundamental shift in what's possible when you optimize for both speed and cost at the same time.

What's Next

We're not stopping here. The same principles we applied to Snowflake such as direct loading, smart batching, and compute optimization are being rolled out across other destinations in our roadmap.

Our goal is simple: make data movement so fast and affordable that cost and latency stop being concerns. You should be thinking about what to build, not how much your pipelines cost to run.

If you're using Airbyte with Snowflake, you're already benefiting from these improvements. And if you're not yet, now's a great time to take a look.

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