Astro Hosted vs. Astro Hybrid feature differences
Astro Hosted, also known simply as Astro, is a fully-managed SaaS application for Apache Airflow. Astro Hybrid is a self-hosted, Astronomer-managed Airflow service. Due to the difference in architecture between these products, some features are available only on a specific architecture.
Use this guide to understand which features are exclusive to Astro Hosted or Astro Hybrid. If a feature isn't listed here, it's available in both products.
Astro Hosted-exclusive features
- Deployment health incidents
- Specific resource authorization strategies, such as attaching a service account to a Deployment
- Self-service VPC peering
- Deploy history and rollbacks
- Run a deprecated Astro Runtime version
- The Astro Environment Manager
- Billing page in the Astro UI
- The cost breakdown Organization dashboard
Astro Hybrid-exclusive features
- Configurable metadata database instance types. For example, see available RDS instance types on AWS.
- Some cloud regions for clusters are available only on Astro Hybrid. For example, see supported cloud regions on AWS.
- Configurable cloud-specific machine types for worker queues. For example, see supported worker node pool instance types on AWS.