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Category: Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)

Persist and analyze metadata in a transient Amazon MWAA environment

Customers can harness sophisticated orchestration capabilities through the open-source tool Apache Airflow. Airflow can be installed on Amazon EC2 instances or can be dockerized and deployed as a container on AWS container services. Alternatively, customers can also opt to leverage Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Amazon MWAA is a fully managed service that […]

How ENGIE scales their data ingestion pipelines using Amazon MWAA

ENGIE—one of the largest utility providers in France and a global player in the zero-carbon energy transition—produces, transports, and deals electricity, gas, and energy services. With 160,000 employees worldwide, ENGIE is a decentralized organization and operates 25 business units with a high level of delegation and empowerment. ENGIE’s decentralized global customer base had accumulated lots […]

Bolster security with role-based access control in Amazon MWAA

Amazon Studios invests in content that drives global growth of Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV. Amazon Studios has a number of internal-facing applications that aim to streamline end-to-end business processes and information workflows for the entire content creation lifecycle. The Amazon Studios Data Infrastructure (ASDI) is a centralized, curated, and secure data lake that […]

Manage and process your big data workflows with Amazon MWAA and Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

Many customers are gathering large amount of data, generated from different sources such as IoT devices, clickstream events from websites, and more. To efficiently extract insights from the data, you have to perform various transformations and apply different business logic on your data. These processes require complex workflow management to schedule jobs and manage dependencies […]

Orchestrate AWS Glue DataBrew jobs using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

As the industry grows with more data volume, big data analytics is becoming a common requirement in data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases. Analysts are building complex data transformation pipelines that include multiple steps for data preparation and cleansing. However, analysts may want a simpler orchestration mechanism with a graphical user interface that […]

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Orchestrating analytics jobs on Amazon EMR Notebooks using Amazon MWAA

In a previous post, we introduced the Amazon EMR notebook APIs, which allow you to programmatically run a notebook on both Amazon EMR Notebooks and Amazon EMR Studio (preview) without accessing the AWS web console. With the APIs, you can schedule running EMR notebooks with cron scripts, chain multiple EMR notebooks, and use orchestration services […]

The state machine transforms data using AWS Glue.

Building complex workflows with Amazon MWAA, AWS Step Functions, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to run open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to run your extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines. You can use AWS Step Functions as a serverless function orchestrator to build scalable […]