AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Application Integration
Building an LLM-powered DAG failure analysis plugin for Amazon MWAA
Debugging Apache Airflow DAG failures across services like AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Athena is slow and manual. In this post, we show you how to build a custom Airflow plugin that integrates with Amazon Bedrock to automatically analyze DAG task failures and deliver on-demand root cause analysis on Amazon MWAA.
PythonOperator and BashOperator Now Available on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Serverless
You can now use PythonOperator and BashOperator to run custom Python functions and shell scripts directly in the Amazon MWAA Serverless runtime, without provisioning additional infrastructure. This post walks through building a serverless pipeline that converts CSV files to JSON using a PythonOperator and verifies the output with a BashOperator.
Event-driven pipeline orchestration with Amazon MWAA and Airflow 3.0
Data engineering teams running Apache Airflow across multiple AWS accounts have no built-in way to coordinate workflows between separate Amazon MWAA environments. With Airflow 3.0 on Amazon MWAA, you can use asset-based scheduling and Asset Watchers with Amazon SQS to build event-driven, cross-account orchestration that replaces polling with near real-time triggers.
Building a scalable personalized recommendation system on AWS: From batch to real-time
Learn how the Everyday Essentials team built a scalable personalized recommendation platform on AWS using a batch-first architecture with Amazon MWAA for orchestration, Amazon SageMaker for training and vector search, and AWS Lake Formation for governed data access, then extended it to real-time with Amazon MemoryDB.
Patch perfect: Automating Amazon Redshift patch testing
In this post, we demonstrate an automated test suite that validates your Amazon Redshift cluster automatically after any patch, reboot, or modification. It uses standard drivers against real workload patterns to provide a verified gate between a patch landing and that patch reaching production.
AI-powered performance recommendations for Amazon Redshift
In this post, you learn how to build an AI-powered solution that collects the telemetry, pre-computes performance signals, correlates them with CloudWatch, and uses Amazon Bedrock to generate prioritized recommendations.
Why tombola chose Graviton-powered RG instances for Amazon Redshift
In this post, you learn how tombola followed a strict engineering principle: no changes to production without evidence. That meant a head-to-head comparison of RA3 versus RG on their actual workload. You also see benchmark results on Amazon S3 Tables and the migration from RA3 to RG instances.
Choosing the right workflow orchestration service for your use case: Amazon MWAA and AWS Step Functions
This post explores how to select the right workflow orchestration service based on your specific use case requirements. We’ll examine key workflow characteristics, present real-world scenarios, and provide practical guidance to help you make an informed decision for your particular needs.
A guide to capacity planning for Airflow worker pool in Amazon MWAA
In our previous post, A guide to Airflow worker pool optimization in Amazon MWAA, we explored when adding workers to your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) environment actually solves performance issues, and when it doesn’t. We walked through patterns like high CPU utilization and long queue times where scaling may be appropriate, […]
Automated tag-based DAG permission management in Amazon MWAA
In this post, we show you how to use Apache Airflow tags to systematically manage DAG permissions, reducing operational burden while maintaining robust security controls that complement infrastructure-level security measures.








