Enterprise-Grade Apache Airflow® on Astro

Astronomer is the commercial steward of Apache Airflow®, the de facto standard for modern data orchestration. Drawing on the expertise developed by running thousands of enterprise-grade Airflow deployments at scale, Astronomer designed Astro, the modern DataOps platform.

Key benefits

Astro helps data teams reduce costs, improve reliability, and ship data products faster—without the overhead of managing Apache Airflow®. Everything you need to develop, operate, and monitor pipelines is built in, so you can focus on delivering value instead of juggling homegrown solutions and third-party add-ons

• Build with speed and flexibility. Empower teams across your org (even without deep Python expertise) to build and deploy Airflow DAGs using developer-friendly tooling, low-code patterns, and reusable templates.

• Run with reliability and scale. Ensure your most critical pipelines always meet SLAs with built-in autoscaling, resilient task execution, and a platform tuned for performance.

• Stay in control with built-in observability. Monitor performance, troubleshoot faster, and keep your Airflow pipelines running smoothly with integrated logs and alerts.

Deeply integrated with Microsoft Azure

Astro is available in Azure as an Azure Native ISV Service, allowing you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate Astro with your existing Azure environments. Microsoft and Astronomer work together to develop and manage this service.

Highlighted features

• Day-zero upgrade support for new Airflow versions, including Airflow 3.0, with easy rollbacks

• CLI-based local development experience with native CI/CD integrations

• Easily provision secure environments for development and testing

• 1,600+ pre-built integrations, ensuring compatibility with your entire data ecosystem

• Centralized connections management allows you to create once and deploy everywhere

• Astro Hypervisor that makes Airflow easier to manage at scale and includes intelligent autoscaling for cost optimization and task-optimized Worker Queues for reliable, efficient task execution

Azure-ready integrations

• Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and access controls including single sign-on with Azure AD including SCIM

• Usage based pricing with integrated billing

• Effortless integrations with Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Container Instances and Data Factory