Known Limitations
Availability in Azure
Azure currently offers Native Apps in General Availability, while Snowpark Container Services (SPCS) is in Private Preview. The Workbench Native App is planned for release on Azure in early 2025.
Private Link support
Neither AWS nor Azure currently support Private Link for SPCS and Native Apps. Snowflake anticipates this functionality to be available in early 2025.
Tri-secret secure support
The Native Application supports Tri-secret secure, except for block volumes. This limitation is expected to be addressed in future releases as Snowflake introduces new storage options.
Scalability
The Workbench Native App is limited to single-node deployments due to current SPCS constraints. It scales up to the largest available SPCS instance, as described in the Snowflake Create Compute Pool documentation, which offers 124 CPUs and 984 GB of RAM. Administrators must manually start and stop the service to manage costs or use scheduled tasks, as outlined in the Tasks Overview documentation, to suspend the app. We recommend the Workbench Native App for teams with fewer than 50 concurrent users.
See create Compute Pool
For larger teams, the application has demonstrated scalability outside of SPCS environments, supporting thousands of users. Future releases are expected to remove this limitation within SPCS.