Known Limitations

Workbench | Advanced

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.

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.

Local network shares

The Workbench Native App operates entirely within Snowflake SPCS, which does not support access to local network file shares. This is a broader compatibility limitation within Snowflake’s architecture.

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