Overview of Apache Airflow and MWAA
Apache Airflow is an open source workflow management framework that allows you to build workflows using the Python programming language. It has the following fundamental differences compared to AWS Step Functions:
- Being an Apache open source project, Airflow not only supports AWS services, but also supports integration with other public cloud providers and open source projects such as Apache Sqoop, Apache Spark, and many more.
- AWS Step Functions provides a low-code, JSON-based definition, whereas Airflow is more popular with programmers as you need to design a workflow by writing Python scripts.
- AWS Step Functions provides a serverless offering, whereas Airflow needs infrastructure provisioned to act as a cluster on top of which you can run multiple jobs.
From a use case perspective, Airflow is a great fit when your workflow involves AWS and non-AWS services. For example, not all your applications are in AWS; a few are on...
