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Connect Snowflake to Experience Platform using the Flow Service API

Last update: Fri Sep 26 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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IMPORTANT
The Snowflake source is available in the sources catalog to users who have purchased Real-Time Customer Data Platform Ultimate.

Read this guide to learn how you can connect your Snowflake source account to Adobe Experience Platform using the Flow Service API.

Getting started

This guide requires a working understanding of the following components of Adobe Experience Platform:

  • Sources: Experience Platform allows data to be ingested from various sources while providing you with the ability to structure, label, and enhance incoming data using Experience Platform services.
  • Sandboxes: Experience Platform provides virtual sandboxes which partition a single Experience Platform instance into separate virtual environments to help develop and evolve digital experience applications.

Using Experience Platform APIs

For information on how to successfully make calls to Experience Platform APIs, see the guide on getting started with Experience Platform APIs.

The following section provides additional information that you will need to know in order to successfully connect to Snowflake using the Flow Service API.

Gather required credentials

Read the Snowflake overview for information on authentication.

Connect Snowflake to Experience Platform on Azure azure

WARNING
Basic authentication (or account key authentication) for the Snowflake source will be deprecated on November 2025. You must move to key-pair based authentication in order to continue using the source and ingesting data from your database to Experience Platform. For more information on the deprecation, read the Snowflake best practices guide on mitigating the risks of credential compromise.

Read the steps below for information on how to connect your Snowflake source to Experience Platform on Azure.

NOTE
You must set the PREVENT_UNLOAD_TO_INLINE_URL flag to FALSE to allow data unloading from your Snowflake database to Experience Platform.

Create a base connection for Snowflake on Experience Platform on Azure azure-base

A base connection retains information between your source and Experience Platform, including your source’s authentication credentials, the current state of the connection, and your unique base connection ID. The base connection ID allows you to explore and navigate files from within your source and identify the specific items that you want to ingest, including information regarding their data types and formats.

To create a base connection ID, make a POST request to the /connections endpoint while providing your Snowflake authentication credentials as part of the request body.

API format

POST /connections
ConnectionString
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Request

The following request creates a base connection for Snowflake:

code language-shell 
curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Snowflake base connection",
      "description": "Snowflake base connection",
      "auth": {
          "specName": "ConnectionString",
          "params": {
              "connectionString": "jdbc:snowflake://{ACCOUNT_NAME}.snowflakecomputing.com/?user={USERNAME}&password={PASSWORD}&db={DATABASE}&warehouse={WAREHOUSE}"
          }
      },
      "connectionSpec": {
          "id": "b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3",
          "version": "1.0"
      }
  }'
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Property Description
auth.params.connectionString The connection string used to connect to your Snowflake instance. The connection string pattern for Snowflake is jdbc:snowflake://{ACCOUNT_NAME}.snowflakecomputing.com/?user={USERNAME}&password={PASSWORD}&db={DATABASE}&warehouse={WAREHOUSE}.
connectionSpec.id The Snowflake connection specification ID: b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3.
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Response

A successful response returns the newly created connection, including its unique connection identifier (id). This ID is required to explore your data in the next tutorial.

code language-json 
{
    "id": "2fce94c1-9a93-4971-8e94-c19a93097129",
    "etag": "\"d403848a-0000-0200-0000-5e978f7b0000\""
}
Key-pair authentication with encrypted private key
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Request
code language-shell 
curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Snowflake base connection with encrypted private key",
      "description": "Snowflake base connection with encrypted private key",
      "auth": {
        "specName": "KeyPair Authentication",
        "params": {
            "account": "acme-snowflake123",
            "username": "acme-cj123",
            "database": "ACME_DB",
            "privateKey": "{BASE_64_ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY}",
            "privateKeyPassphrase": "abcd1234",
            "warehouse": "COMPUTE_WH"
        }
    },
    "connectionSpec": {
        "id": "b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3",
        "version": "1.0"
    }
  }'
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Property Description
auth.params.account The name of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.username The username associated with your Snowflake account.
auth.params.database The Snowflake database from where the data will be pulled from.
auth.params.privateKey The Base64-encoded encrypted private key of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.privateKeyPassphrase The passphrase that corresponds with your private key.
auth.params.warehouse The Snowflake warehouse that you are using.
connectionSpec.id The Snowflake connection specification ID: b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3.
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Response

A successful response returns details of the newly created connection, including its unique identifier (id).

code language-json 
{
    "id": "2fce94c1-9a93-4971-8e94-c19a93097129",
    "etag": "\"d403848a-0000-0200-0000-5e978f7b0000\""
}
Key-pair authentication with unencrypted private key
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Request
code language-shell 
curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Snowflake base connection with unencrypted private key",
      "description": "Snowflake base connection with unencrypted private key",
      "auth": {
        "specName": "KeyPair Authentication",
        "params": {
            "account": "acme-snowflake123",
            "username": "acme-cj123",
            "database": "ACME_DB",
            "privateKey": "{BASE_64_ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY}",
            "warehouse": "COMPUTE_WH"
        }
    },
    "connectionSpec": {
        "id": "b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3",
        "version": "1.0"
    }
  }'
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Property Description
auth.params.account The name of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.username The username associated with your Snowflake account.
auth.params.database The Snowflake database from where the data will be pulled from.
auth.params.privateKey The Base64-encoded unencrypted private key of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.warehouse The Snowflake warehouse that you are using.
connectionSpec.id The Snowflake connection specification ID: b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3.
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Response

A successful response returns details of the newly created connection, including its unique identifier (id).

code language-json 
{
    "id": "2fce94c1-9a93-4971-8e94-c19a93097129",
    "etag": "\"d403848a-0000-0200-0000-5e978f7b0000\""
}

Connect Snowflake to Experience Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) aws

AVAILABILITY
This section applies to implementations of Experience Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Experience Platform running on AWS is currently available to a limited number of customers. To learn more about the supported Experience Platform infrastructure, see the Experience Platform multi-cloud overview.

Read the steps below for information on how to connect your Snowflake source to Experience Platform on AWS.

Create a base connection for Snowflake on Experience Platform in AWS aws-base

API format

POST /connections
Basic authentication

The following request creates a base connection for Snowflake to ingest data to Experience Platform on AWS:

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Request
code language-shell 
curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Snowflake base connection for Experience Platform on AWS",
      "description": "Snowflake base connection for Experience Platform on AWS",
      "auth": {
          "specName": "Basic Authentication",
          "params": {
              "host": "acme.snowflakecomputing.com",
              "port": "443",
              "username": "acme-cj123",
              "password": "{PASSWORD}",
              "database": "ACME_DB",
              "warehouse": "COMPUTE_WH",
              "schema": "{SCHEMA}"
          }
      },
      "connectionSpec": {
          "id": "b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3",
          "version": "1.0"
      }
  }'
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Property Description
auth.params.host The host URL that your Snowflake account connects to.
auth.params.port The port number that is used by Snowflake when connecting to a server over the internet.
auth.params.username The username associated with your Snowflake account.
auth.params.database The Snowflake database from where the data will be pulled from.
auth.params.password The password associated with your Snowflake account.
auth.params.warehouse The Snowflake warehouse that you are using.
auth.params.schema The name of the schema associated with your Snowflake database. You must ensure that the user you want to give database access to, also has access to this schema.
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Response

A successful response returns details of the newly created connection, including its unique identifier (id).

code language-json 
{
    "id": "4cb0c374-d3bb-4557-b139-5712880adc55",
    "etag": "\"1700d77b-0000-0200-0000-5e3b41a10000\""
}
Key-pair authentication with unencrypted private key
accordion
Request
code language-shell 
curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/flowservice/connections' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "name": "Snowflake base connection with unencrypted private key",
      "description": "Snowflake base connection with unencrypted private key",
      "auth": {
        "specName": "KeyPair Authentication",
        "params": {
            "account": "acme-snowflake123",
            "username": "acme-cj123",
            "database": "ACME_DB",
            "privateKey": "{BASE_64_ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY}",
            "warehouse": "COMPUTE_WH"
        }
    },
    "connectionSpec": {
        "id": "b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3",
        "version": "1.0"
    }
  }'
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Property Description
auth.params.account The name of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.username The username associated with your Snowflake account.
auth.params.database The Snowflake database from where the data will be pulled from.
auth.params.privateKey The Base64-encoded unencrypted private key of your Snowflake account.
auth.params.warehouse The Snowflake warehouse that you are using.
connectionSpec.id The Snowflake connection specification ID: b2e08744-4f1a-40ce-af30-7abac3e23cf3.
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Response

A successful response returns details of the newly created connection, including its unique identifier (id).

code language-json 
{
    "id": "4cb0c374-d3bb-4557-b139-5712880adc55",
    "etag": "\"1700d77b-0000-0200-0000-5e3b41a10000\""
}

By following this tutorial, you have created a Snowflake base connection using the Flow Service API. You can use this base connection ID in the following tutorials:

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