A. Automated Snowpipe uses event notifications to determine when new files arrive in monitored cloud storage and are ready to load.

B. When a pipe is paused, event messages received for the pipe enter a limited retention period. The period is 14 days by default. If a pipe is paused for longer than 14 days, it is considered stale.

C. Notifications identify the cloud storage event and include a list of the file names. They do not include the actual data in the files.

D. Triggering automated Snowpipe data loads using S3 event messages is supported by Snowflake accounts hosted on Cloud Platform like AWS, GCP or AZURE.