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Astro by Astronomer Overview

What is Astro by Astronomer?

For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, the modern data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.

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Astronomer is a data engineering platform designed to collect, process and unifiy enterprise data, so users can get straight to analytics, data science and insights.


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2018
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320 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Astronomer is a data orchestration platform that specializes in helping organizations manage and optimize their data workflows. By leveraging Apache Airflow, Astronomer provides tools for building, scheduling, and monitoring complex data pipelines, enabling teams to automate their data workflows efficiently. The platform offers features such as a managed Airflow service, collaborative tools, and robust monitoring capabilities, aimed at enhancing data engineering productivity and streamlining data operations. For more information, visit their website at [astronomer.io](https://www.astronomer.io/).


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Nazli M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great product and collaboration"
The Astro by Astronomer is a well-engineered product with the flexibility to use The talent at Astronomer makes the process as smooth as possible ...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Data Scientist using Astronomer for custom ETLs and ML"
I like that it is flexible, well documented, has good support. Its UI is pleasing too. It's fast, allows to schedule lots differents jobs by nature...
Diogo F.
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Diogo F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Excelent Airflow as a Service Platform"
With Astronomer we don't need to worry about the infrastructure, everything is abstracted to us, we just need to click a few times to implement a n...
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Jason R.
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Director of Data Engineering
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Astro makes using Airflow (infrastructure, DAG deployment, extensibility) simple and painless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Clarity into what the local and deployed containers are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease in deployment. I can write my DAGs, test them, and deployment with simple, easy to use commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Airflow deployments are extremely easy to manage.

Access to the latest versions of Airflow.

Educational content, documentation, blog posts, and examples.

Access to support and advice of experienced practitioners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Compute costs incurred by Astronomer (on GCP) are more opaque and somewhat higher than we anticipated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Onboarding data engineers unfamiliar with Airflow, removing time overhead of administrating Airflow, etc.

Frees our team to focus on creating value with data that is specific to our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishak S.
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Less maintenance of Airflow by us and more focus on using airflow. The community is great too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

I believe they are figuring out a lot of kinks, so support can definitely be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidating all our various schedulers into one, and providing us opportunities for workflow automations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Up to date w/ latest Airflow version/features, hands-on onboarding and 1:1 customer support, and plethora of great resources (docs, tutorials, examples, and registry) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Compatibility/dependency issues with some common packages (e.g. DBT integration) and the work arounds. For a long time, the dev iteration cycle was almost too slow to make it worth it (until v6.0.4 I believe). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analytics/data processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Relatively easy to set up the environment. There're lots of examples and documentation and have a support channel to have issues raised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

not so easy to find experienced engineers to provide advice and help troubleshoot issues. can benefit from more sophisticated sample codes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

industry standard orchestration tool that's has wide user bases and a vibrant community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Great onboarding experience and superior product. New feature releases and consistent messaging about updates help to support the team. White glove experience to a complex open source product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Nothing major to identify and the team works to track our feature improvement requests as they are submitted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping our team orchestrate our data pipelines that are critical to our customers. It helps us keep previously complex and cumbersome ETL processes in a simpler and easy to maintain system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danielle F.
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Engineering Manager - ETL & Reporting
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Ease of use, not having to manage the infrastructure. It makes creating pipelines a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Nothing really, coming form MWAA there are so many more benefits with Astronomer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Observability into pipeline failures, warehouse ingestion processes, and teaching devs from other teams to create efficient data pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve L.
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Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Astronomer is there to help with their expertise. No longer are you stuck mining the internet for that specific issue you are having, instead just ask support and they are super responsive and friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

The whole "black box" thing is tough to get ok with. I think they still need to cover more edge cases before expecting a black-box experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a managed solution in our own cloud checks all the boxes for a large health care company. Keeping the system in our cloud allows us to manage our security but we still get AMAZING support from astronomer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

The Astro team has been super helpful with tons of questions about Airflow, etc. (including some pretty gnarly technical ones) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

We didn't initially realize that "running in your cloud" meant "running in a new AWS account that you will have to set up" as opposed to our existing one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Astro by Astronomer:

Two main things:

1. "In your cloud" DOES NOT mean "in your existing cloud." You will need to provision a new (e.g. AWS) account, which ended up being a pain for us as we had to set up an organization to share billing, etc.

2. Don't forget that the cost of _Airflow_ is not part of the cost of _Astronomer_. They charge whatever they charge, but running Airflow at the most basic possible config will cost you ~$1,000 a month from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've totally overhauled how we run our data-related jobs, which has been a huge win. It's easier to configure, monitor, and debug jobs now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh N.
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Associate Engineering Manager
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

organised deployments and resource utilisation visibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

adding bulk users as one by one which is more time consume process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Pipeline orchestration made easily managed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.