Snowflake Daily Operations collects donations to fund operation of the snowflake-01 bridge. This is the July 2025 update.
The snowflake-01 bridge began and ended the month of July 2025 with about the same user count—20,000 simultaneous users—but with an apparent large bump in the middle:
However, the same effect is not visible in the bandwidth chart, which rather shows a gradual increase during the month:
Looking at the per-country user counts, we see that the bump is attributable to connections to the bridge with a “??” country code; i.e., those without geolocation:
We don’t have a ready explanation for why there are so many “??” connections this month. Country code geolocation comes from the client IP address, forwarded by the Snowflake proxy to the bridge. The connections without geolocation could be the result of a custom client that connects directly to the Snowflake bridge without using a Snowflake proxy, perhaps; or there could be a custom deployment of proxies that do not properly forward the client IP address. It could also be a researcher doing measurements. There had been some “??” connections in June 2025 as well. Just like in June, they appear only on the snowflake-01 bridge, not snowflake-02.
Users in Iran decreased, since having increased in June 2025 after the network shutdown. We see an increase in users from Russia, and in Turkmenistan towards the end of the month.