Managed Apache Airflow

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow now offers AI agent skills

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS to provide built-in AI agent skills that let you author, debug, and test MWAA workflows and upgrade MWAA environments using any AI coding assistant that supports agent skills.

All Managed Airflow environment's GKE clusters will be set up with maintenance exclusions from November 16, 2026 to December 2, 2026.

For more information, see Maintenance exclusions.

New Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments created while the Restrict Endpoint Usage (constraints/gcp.restrictEndpointUsage) organization policy is active now…

New Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments created while the Restrict Endpoint Usage ( constraints/gcp.restrictEndpointUsage ) organization policy is active now use regional endpoints for services like Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging, Pub/Sub, and Data Lineage.

Database retention in Managed Airflow (Gen 3) now includes new Airflow 3 metadata tables, and updated retention logs to report the exact number of removed rows.

This feature is gradually rolling out over several releases. In this release, it's available in the following regions: europe-north1, europe-west3, us-east1, and us-west2.

(Managed Airflow Gen 2) Fixed an issue where the airflow-monitoring pod could run out of memory (OOMKilled) when calculating scheduled snapshot metrics in…

(Managed Airflow Gen 2) Fixed an issue where the airflow-monitoring pod could run out of memory ( OOMKilled ) when calculating scheduled snapshot metrics in environments with a large number of files in their environment's bucket.

The apache-airflow-providers-google package was upgraded to version 22.6.0.

For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog.

Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments now report Airflow workloads startup failure logs for issues such as internal quota limits, insufficient capacity, or…

Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments now report Airflow workloads startup failure logs for issues such as internal quota limits, insufficient capacity, or internal errors (excluding failures related to KubernetesPodOperator or KubernetesExecutor).

(Managed Airflow Gen 3) Added the scheduler loop duration metric:

composer.googleapis.com/workload/scheduler/loop_duration: time spent running one Scheduler loop.

A new Managed Service for Apache Airflow release has started on October 13, 2026.

Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet.

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.35,…

The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period: composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.35, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.15, composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.36, composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.16, composer-2.14.3-airflow-2.9.3,…

Fixed an issue where a redundant image-version property set in the API request body could sometimes cause a long-running operation to fail.

New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3):

composer-3-airflow-3.3.1-build.4

Development mode environments and Environment hibernation are now generally available (GA).

You can now create Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments with Airflow 3 in development mode to test and develop DAGs before publishing them to production. You can hibernate development mode environments when you no longer need them.

Upgrade rollbacks are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3).

You can roll back an environment upgrade if you encounter degraded performance, Airflow bugs, or compatibility issues with your DAGs, plugins, or dependencies.

The apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes package was upgraded to version 10.23.0.

For changes in other packages, see the preinstalled packages changelog.

New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2):

composer-2.17.15-airflow-2.11.1 (default)

(Airflow 3.3.1, 3.2.2, and 2.11.1) The apache-airflow-providers-google package was upgraded to version 22.4.0.

For more information about changes, see the apache-airflow-providers-google changelog.

Fixed an issue where OpenID Connect (OIDC) ID token audience strings were incorrectly converted to lowercase.

The audience field now preserves case-sensitivity. This fixes integration failures with external services that require case-sensitive audience values.

New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3):

composer-3-airflow-3.3.1-build.3

New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2):

composer-2.17.14-airflow-2.11.1 (default)