Case Study: idealo achieves 99.999% pipeline uptime and faster DAG authoring with Astro by Astronomer

idealo boosts uptime to 99.999% with Astronomer

idealo, one of Europe's largest price comparison platforms, faced significant operational challenges using AWS MWAA for its data pipelines. The managed service still required considerable overhead, caused downtime with every environment change, and created a bottleneck because only Python developers could author DAGs. This limited the platform's adoption across the company's non-Python engineering and data analyst teams.

By migrating to Astronomer's Astro platform, idealo eliminated infrastructure incidents and achieved 99.999% uptime. The solution included using Astronomer's Blueprint to enable self-service, no-code pipeline authorship for non-technical teams, reducing onboarding from 3 hours to 10 minutes. The results included 6x faster deploys and 18x faster DAG authoring, allowing four new teams to build pipelines independently.

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