36% was the market reaction in Snowflake $SNOW after its Q1 FY2027 earnings update, according to CNBC market coverage, while the company reported $996.8M of product revenue for the quarter ended April 30, 2026.

The company release put product revenue growth at 26% year over year. Remaining performance obligations were $6.7B, up 29%, and net revenue retention was 122%. Those three figures matter more than a headline beat because Snowflake is still being valued as a usage-growth software company, not as a mature subscription utility.

Management also gave investors a second number to model: a planned $6B AWS commitment over five years. CNBC reported the AWS plan alongside the 36% share-price move, tying the earnings reaction to both AI workload demand and infrastructure spending. The stake for investors is margin durability: faster AI product adoption can lift consumption, but cloud commitments also make operating leverage a quarterly watch item.

For the next update, the key line items are product revenue guidance, net revenue retention, and whether the AWS spending plan shows up as higher gross-margin pressure or stronger capacity for AI workloads. The stock move clears the Tier-1 threshold because it was a single-name reaction above 8% with named earnings and cloud-spending catalysts.

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Snowflake $SNOW jumps 36% as Q1 product revenue reaches $996.8M