Encryption of data in transit on the Snowflake platform

Question

Is data encrypted while in transit on the Snowflake plaform? It\'s clear that via Snowflake End to End Encryption that data at rest is encrypted, but what about data on the move

Answer 1

Yes, the data is encrypted in transit. Snowflake works on the concept of END-TO-END ENCRYPTION where only the end-users view the data and nobody else would be able to view the data.

For example when data is being transferred from remote Snowflake disk (long term storage) to local cache (SSDs on compute nodes) - does the data remain encrypted during that transfer?

Yes, the data remains encrypted while in the transfer and the same is applicable when using result_cache as well.

Ref : https://www.snowflake.com/blog/end-to-end-encryption-in-the-snowflake-data-warehouse/