Amazon Web Services Connection

The Amazon Web Services connection type enables the AWS Integrations.

Authenticating to AWS

Authentication may be performed using any of the boto3 options. Alternatively, one can pass credentials in as a Connection initialisation parameter.

To use IAM instance profile, create an “empty” connection (i.e. one with no Login or Password specified, or aws://).

Default Connection IDs

The default connection ID is aws_default.

Note

Previously, the aws_default connection had the “extras” field set to {"region_name": "us-east-1"} on install. This means that by default the aws_default connection used the us-east-1 region. This is no longer the case and the region needs to be set manually, either in the connection screens in Airflow, or via the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable.

Configuring the Connection

Login (optional)

Specify the AWS access key ID.

Password (optional)

Specify the AWS secret access key.

Extra (optional)

Specify the extra parameters (as json dictionary) that can be used in AWS connection. The following parameters are all optional:

  • aws_session_token: AWS session token used for the initial connection if you use external credentials. You are responsible for renewing these.

  • aws_account_id: AWS account ID for the connection

  • aws_iam_role: AWS IAM role for the connection

  • external_id: AWS external ID for the connection

  • host: Endpoint URL for the connection

  • region_name: AWS region for the connection

  • role_arn: AWS role ARN for the connection

  • aws_session_token: AWS session token if you use external credentials. You are responsible for renewing these.

  • host: Endpoint URL for the connection.

  • region_name: AWS region for the connection.

  • external_id: AWS external ID for the connection (deprecated, rather use assume_role_kwargs).

  • config_kwargs: Additional kwargs used to construct a botocore.config.Config passed to boto3.client and boto3.resource.

  • session_kwargs: Additional kwargs passed to boto3.session.Session.

If you are configuing the connection via a URI, ensure that all components of the URI are URL-encoded.

Examples

Using instance profile:
export AIRFLOW_CONN_AWS_DEFAULT=aws://

This will use boto’s default credential look-up chain (the profile named “default” from the ~/.boto/ config files, and instance profile when running inside AWS)

With a AWS IAM key pair:
export AIRFLOW_CONN_AWS_DEFAULT=aws://AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:wJalrXUtnFEMI%2FK7MDENG%2FbPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY@

Note here, that the secret access key has been URL-encoded (changing / to %2F), and also the trailing @ (without which, it is treated as <host>:<port> and will not work)

Examples for the Extra field

  1. Using ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config file, with a profile.

This assumes all other Connection fields eg Login are empty.

{
  "session_kwargs": {
    "profile_name": "my_profile"
  }
}

  1. Specifying a role_arn to assume and a region_name

    {
   "aws_iam_role": "aws_iam_role_name",
   "region_name": "ap-southeast-2"
}

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