Apache Iceberg Lakehouse: Snowflake and Google Cloud
Snowflake, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Snowflake and Google Cloud detail building an open, AI-ready lakehouse on Apache Iceberg.
Snowflake describes building an open, AI-ready lakehouse using Apache Iceberg across Snowflake and Google Cloud. Iceberg as the shared table format means data can be read by engines on either side without duplication or format conversion.
The post covers the architecture, the interoperability it delivers, and how it avoids vendor lock-in on the storage layer.
It addresses the governance question of how permissions are maintained across engines. The guidance targets organizations running analytics workloads split across both platforms.