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Category: Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA)
Use Snowflake with Amazon MWAA to orchestrate data pipelines
This blog post is co-written with James Sun from Snowflake. Customers rely on data from different sources such as mobile applications, clickstream events from websites, historical data, and more to deduce meaningful patterns to optimize their products, services, and processes. With a data pipeline, which is a set of tasks used to automate the movement […]
Set up fine-grained permissions for your data pipeline using MWAA and EKS
This blog post shows how to improve security in a data pipeline architecture based on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) by setting up fine-grained permissions, using HashiCorp Terraform for infrastructure as code.
Introducing Apache Airflow version 2.6.3 support on Amazon MWAA
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it simple to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Trusted across various industries, Amazon MWAA helps organizations like Siemens, ENGIE, and Choice Hotels International enhance and scale their business workflows, while significantly improving security […]
Automate secure access to Amazon MWAA environments using existing OpenID Connect single-sign-on authentication and authorization
Customers use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) to run Apache Airflow at scale in the cloud. They want to use their existing login solutions developed using OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers with Amazon MWAA; this allows them to provide a uniform authentication and single sign-on (SSO) experience using their adopted identity providers (IdP) […]
Introducing in-place version upgrades with Amazon MWAA
Today, AWS is announcing the availability of in-place version upgrades for Amazon Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). This enhancement allows you to seamlessly upgrade your existing Apache Airflow version 2.x environments to newer available versions while retaining the workflow run history and environment configurations. You can now take advantage of the latest capabilities […]
Simplify AWS Glue job orchestration and monitoring with Amazon MWAA
Organizations across all industries have complex data processing requirements for their analytical use cases across different analytics systems, such as data lakes on AWS, data warehouses (Amazon Redshift), search (Amazon OpenSearch Service), NoSQL (Amazon DynamoDB), machine learning (Amazon SageMaker), and more. Analytics professionals are tasked with deriving value from data stored in these distributed systems […]
What’s new with Amazon MWAA support for startup scripts
Amazon Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow environment to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. In April 2023, Amazon MWAA added support for […]
What’s new with Amazon MWAA support for Apache Airflow version 2.4.3
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it simple to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Amazon MWAA supports multiple versions of Apache Airflow (v1.10.12, v2.0.2, and v2.2.2). Earlier in 2023, we added support for Apache Airflow v2.4.3 […]
Improve observability across Amazon MWAA tasks
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it simple to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud at scale. A data pipeline is a set of tasks and processes used to automate the movement and transformation of data between different systems. […]
Automate data lineage on Amazon MWAA with OpenLineage
In modern data architectures, datasets are combined across an organization using a variety of purpose-built services to unlock insights. As a result, data governance becomes a key component for data consumers and producers to know that their data-driven decisions are based on trusted and accurate datasets. One aspect of data governance is data lineage, which […]