Will Looker incorporate MFA for Snowflake users?

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I have a Looker Studio connection to Snowflake using a Legacy Snowflake user -which allows entering with just a password. However, I understand that these user types will be migrated to service users and eventually forced to use MFA too.

This will be out-rolled slowly, and implemented completely in Aug 2026 according to the timeline in this article: Planning for the deprecation of single-factor password sign-ins | Snowflake Documentation

But just wondering if this was something you are considering and/or aware of. Would really love continuing to use this connection on my reports! Thank you

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I believe Snowflake SERVICE users (new service users, not legacy service users) are exempt from MFA. See Best practices for migration from single-factor authentication | Snowflake Documentation in the section “Network and authentication policies: General guidelines”. It says:

SERVICE: For service-to-service authentication that uses programmatic access. This will be exempted from MFA enforcement, but those users will not support password authentication any more. Those users will support either OAuth or key-pair only.

I’m assuming you have your own Snowflake account that you use to log into the Snowflake web UI and this is the account you use for Looker. This will have to change, due to MFA, and you’ll need to get a separate SERVICE account for Looker.