Case Study: Autodesk accelerates cloud transformation with Astronomer, Inc.'s Airflow-powered orchestration

Autodesk Uses Astronomer's Airflow-Powered Orchestration to Support Its Cloud Transformation

Autodesk, the software company behind AutoCAD and other design products, needed to replace its aging Apache Oozie workflow system to support a broader cloud transformation. Its legacy orchestration couldn’t keep up with cloud services, modern DataOps practices, role-based access needs, or growing machine learning workloads, creating operational bottlenecks and frequent DAG failures.

Astronomer, Inc. provided an Airflow-powered orchestration platform and Professional Services to migrate Autodesk’s 536 critical DAGs from Oozie to Airflow in about 12 weeks. With Astronomer’s help, Autodesk gained self-service pipeline management, faster product engineering, reduced outages, and better support for modern DataOps—freeing teams to focus on building products instead of maintaining workflows.

Autodesk

Nick Wilson

Senior Manager