Amazon MWAA now provides option to update environments without interrupting task execution

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now provides the option to update environments without interrupting running tasks on supported Apache Airflow versions (v2.4.3 or later).

Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Amazon MWAA now allows you to update your environment without disrupting your ongoing workflow tasks. By choosing this option, you are now able to update an MWAA environment in graceful manner where MWAA will replace Airflow Scheduler and Webserver components, provision new workers, and wait for ongoing worker tasks to complete before removing older workers. The graceful option is available only for supported Apache Airflow versions (v2.4.3 or later) on MWAA.

You can enable graceful updates in your MWAA environment by performing an update with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console in all currently supported Amazon MWAA regions. To learn more about graceful updates of MWAA environments, visit the Amazon MWAA documentation. To learn more about the Apache Airflow versions on MWAA, visit the Apache Airflow versions on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow.

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