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John Jackson

Author: John Jackson

John has over 20 years of software experience as a developer, systems architect, and product manager in both startups and large corporations and is the AWS Principal Product Manager responsible for Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA).

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Move your Apache Airflow connections and variables to AWS Secrets Manager

Data scientists and engineers have made Apache Airflow a leading open source tool to create data pipelines due to its active open source community, familiar Python development as directed acyclic graph (DAG) workflows, and extensive library of prebuilt integrations. However, managing the connections and variables that these pipelines depend on can be a challenge, especially […]

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Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow unaffected by Airflow 1.10.12 vulnerability

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is not affected by the recently announced vulnerability in Apache Airflow 1.10.12. The default airflow.cfg file uses a temporary key that is the same for all installations. In Airflow 1.10.12 and earlier, there was no restriction in using that temporary key on the Airflow web server, meaning that […]