Snowpipe Auto Ingest is supported only for external stages.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only internal stages
• D. Both internal and external stages

Answer: (C)

Snowpipe Auto Ingest relies on cloud storage event notifications to trigger loads, and these notifications are available only when data lives in external stages tied to a cloud storage account. Internal stages are Snowflake-managed storage and do not emit external file events that Snowpipe can listen for, so auto-ingest cannot be triggered from them. Therefore, Snowpipe Auto Ingest is supported only for external stages — the setup requires an external stage (such as S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud Storage) with the appropriate storage notifications, and a Snowpipe pipe configured with AUTO_INGEST = TRUE. If you need to load from an internal stage, you would use other loading methods, not auto-ingest.