Astronomer
Astronomer provides the most reliable and scalable way to run Apache Airflow in production, offering a fully managed cloud service that eliminates infrastructure management complexity while enabling data teams to focus on building and orchestrating data pipelines.
Last updated May 11, 2026
At a glance
About
Leading commercial provider of Apache Airflow solutions and primary commercial steward of the Apache Airflow project
Astronomer is not an AdTech company. It is a data orchestration platform company that serves as the commercial steward of Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform. Astronomer provides enterprise-grade solutions for building, running, and observing data pipelines at scale. Their flagship product, Astro, is a fully managed service that enables data engineers and data teams to orchestrate complex data workflows across cloud environments. The company focuses on the data infrastructure and data engineering market, serving enterprises that need to manage complex data pipelines, ETL processes, and workflow automation. While data orchestration tools like Astronomer can be used by AdTech companies to manage their data pipelines, Astronomer itself is not positioned within the advertising technology ecosystem but rather in the broader data infrastructure and DataOps space.
Business model
SaaS
Target market
Enterprise
What they offer
Astro
Fully managed Apache Airflow service in the cloud with automated updates, monitoring, and scaling
Astronomer Software
Self-hosted Apache Airflow platform for on-premise or private cloud deployments
Astro CLI
Command-line tool for local Airflow development and deployment to Astro
Astro Registry
Library of pre-built Airflow providers and DAG examples
Key features
Use cases
Customer segments
Tech & specs
Technology stack
Security & compliance
Deployment
API
Yes