Use Snowflake with R2 to extend your global data lake
May 16, 2023Phillip Jones, Abhi Das

Summary
This post announces a partnership between Cloudflare R2 and Snowflake, enabling users to query data stored in R2 from Snowflake and load data from R2 into Snowflake. It provides step-by-step instructions for generating R2 API tokens and creating external stages in Snowflake using R2 credentials. It also demonstrates how to use the `COPY INTO` command for loading data and how to create external tables in Snowflake to query data in R2.
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