--- title: How to Set Up Cross-Region Inference for CoCo in APJ description: A practical guide for setting up cross-region inference (CRI) for Snowflake's CoCo (Cortex Code) assistant in Asia-Pacific accounts. It walks through the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-cross-region-inference-for-coco-in-apj-lzxynxvia twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Set Up Cross-Region Inference for CoCo in APJ | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide for setting up cross-region inference (CRI) for Snowflake's CoCo (Cortex Code) assistant in Asia-Pacific accounts. It walks through the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-cross-region-inference-for-coco-in-apj-lzxynxvia og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LZxYnxviA.png og:image:alt: How to Set Up Cross-Region Inference for CoCo in APJ og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Set Up Cross-Region Inference for CoCo in APJ **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide for setting up cross-region inference (CRI) for Snowflake's CoCo (Cortex Code) assistant in Asia-Pacific accounts. It walks through the CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION parameter, which accepts geography-scoped values like AWS_APJ, AWS_AU, and AWS_JP that keep inference traffic within Asia-Pacific over the cloud provider's private backbone rather than routing to the US. It covers checking current settings, permissions (ACCOUNTADMIN only), what data actually moves (only the inference payload, not stored data), billing notes, privacy compliance considerations for APP 8/APPI/PDPA reviews, the lack of equivalent scoped options on Azure/GCP, and how to set a default model via a settings agent once CRI is enabled. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I keep Snowflake Cortex cross-region inference traffic within Asia-Pacific instead of routing to the US? Set the account parameter CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION to a geography-scoped value instead of ANY_REGION. For AWS accounts in Asia-Pacific, use ALTER ACCOUNT SET CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION = 'AWS_APJ' to cover major Asia-Pacific regions, or AWS_AU for Sydney and Melbourne, or AWS_JP for Tokyo and Osaka. Traffic then stays on the AWS private backbone within the geography with no public internet routing. _Teams navigating Snowflake data-residency configs can track parameter changes like this via daily.dev._ ### Who is allowed to set the CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION parameter in Snowflake? Only the ACCOUNTADMIN role can set CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION; ORGADMIN cannot. The parameter is account-level only, so it must be configured per account rather than at the organization level, and its default value depends on when the account was created, its region, and its type. _Admins scoping Snowflake permissions can follow configuration details like this on daily.dev._ ### Can I keep Snowflake Cortex inference traffic on Azure or GCP within Asia-Pacific? No, there is no AZURE_APJ or GCP_APJ scoped value. Azure or GCP accounts in Asia-Pacific wanting to stay on their own cloud provider are limited to AZURE_GLOBAL or GCP_GLOBAL, both of which route inference traffic outside the Asia-Pacific geography, so in-geography routing currently only works cleanly on AWS. _Engineers weighing cloud provider choices for regional compliance can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference](https://daily.dev/posts/access-anthropic-claude-models-in-india-on-amazon-bedrock-with-global-cross-region-inference-skxzylk25) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Getting Started with Cortex Code: A Data Engineer’s Guide](https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-cortex-code-a-data-engineer-s-guide-shsxthtrq) · Snowflake Community · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports geo-specific inference for Japan and Australia](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-sagemaker-data-agent-now-supports-geo-specific-inference-for-japan-and-australia-v7v4vjaea) · AWS · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Snowflake CoCo and CoWork: Governed Context for Agentic AI](https://daily.dev/posts/snowflake-coco-and-cowork-governed-context-for-agentic-ai-uapc0ap69) · Decube · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Regional inference now available on AI Gateway](https://daily.dev/posts/regional-inference-now-available-on-ai-gateway-797v9pcj9) · Vercel · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#snowflake](https://daily.dev/tags/snowflake) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-cross-region-inference-for-coco-in-apj-lzxynxvia) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to Set Up Cross-Region Inference for CoCo in APJ","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-cross-region-inference-for-coco-in-apj-lzxynxvia","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-set-up-cross-region-inference-for-coco-in-apj-lzxynxvia"},"datePublished":"2026-08-13T20:47:35.339Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:17:16.896Z","description":"A practical guide for setting up cross-region inference (CRI) for Snowflake's CoCo (Cortex Code) assistant in Asia-Pacific accounts. 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