Why so many SnowPro certifications retiring in 2026?

If you went to or if you are preparing for Snowflake certification exams, you should be ready for some bad surprises. Because not less than 5 certifications (out of 12) have been already retired (or are set to be retired) this year alone!

Why so many? And why such a lack of information about this?

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Snowflake Education and Training may argue that they can do whatever they are pleased. And they are right.

They may also argue that Snowflake constantly evolves and you need new certifications (for the new features), while getting rid of what is obsolete today. And they may be right again.

However, if you detain such certification, you have the right as well to ask yourself if it is worth going to such exams or recertifying. Because both the registration and recertification fees are considerable, if you don’t enjoy free vouchers from someone.

All certification programs may change in time. But have a look at other serious cloud certifications, because I just posted an update. And I detain plenty of other certifications (from the past) in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Databricks. But none of them changed so drastically.