Airflow 3 is here, bringing a new era of flexibility, scalability, and security to data orchestration. This release makes building, running, and managing data pipelines easier than ever. In this session, we will cover the key benefits of Airflow 3, including: (1) Ease of Use: Airflow 3 rethinks the user experience—from an intuitive, upgraded UI to DAG Versioning and scheduler-integrated backfills that let teams manage pipelines more effectively than ever before (2) Stronger Security: By decoupling task execution from direct database connections, Airflow 3 enforces task isolation and minimal-privilege access. This meets stringent compliance standards while reducing the risk of unauthorized data exposure. (3) Ultimate Flexibility: Run tasks anywhere, anytime with remote execution and event-driven scheduling. Airflow 3 is designed for global, heterogeneous modern data environments with an architecture that facilitates edge and hybrid-cloud to GPU-based deployments.

Over the last few years, we’ve spent countless hours talking to data engineers from everywhere from Fortune 500s to seed stage startups. In doing so, we’ve learned all about what it takes to deliver a world class Airflow service perfect for everyone. We’ve packaged all that up into The Astro Hypervisor, a new part of our platform that gives users a whole new level of control in Airflow. We’ll talk through how we’ve built this hypervisor and how our customers will be able to use it for autoscaling, tracking the health of Airflow environments and so much more.