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Introducing Apache Airflow 3 on Amazon MWAA: New features and capabilities

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AWS has announced the general availability of Apache Airflow 3 on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), introducing significant enhancements to workflow orchestration.

  • Completely redesigned React-based UI with improved navigation and dark mode
  • Introduction of Asset Watchers for event-driven scheduling
  • Enhanced security through component isolation and API server
  • New Task SDK for more intuitive task and DAG definition
  • Scheduler optimizations for better performance and backfill operations
  • Support for Python 3.12
  • Asset-centric workflow design with @asset decorator

The release transforms workflow management by providing more secure, flexible, and developer-friendly orchestration capabilities for data pipelines and business processes.



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