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Apache Airflow® orchestrates the world's data, ML, and AI pipelines. Astro is the best way to build, run, and observe them at scale. - astronomer.io
Depends. Buy if your team already runs serious Airflow pipelines and wants managed infrastructure with expert support. Skip it if your needs are a handful of cron jobs or simple ETL — it's expensive overkill.
Medium. Based on 11 public sources; no numeric review scores or list prices found in evidence.
Pay As You Go
Usage-based via AWS Marketplace
medium
No list prices published; expect a sales conversation beyond AWS pay-as-you-go.
medium
Usage-based billing can balloon with many DAGs and worker hours.
medium
Deep Airflow lock-in: DAG code and team skills don't transfer easily.
Ease of use: 4/5
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Users praise Astro's ease of use and orchestration value, and a PeerSpot comparison favored it over AWS MWAA.
“I find it valuable to use Astro by Astronomer as an orc…”
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Free and full-featured; you own deployment and ops burden.
AWS-native managed Airflow; PeerSpot says less polished UX.
Guess: modern orchestrators some teams find lighter than Airflow.
Enough for simple scheduled transforms; skip orchestrators entirely.
Based on 11 public sources; no numeric review scores or list prices found in evidence.
Managed Airflow for serious data teams. Great once you've outgrown self-hosting; overkill for simple scheduled jobs.
Based on 11 public sources; no numeric review scores or list prices found in evidence.
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