Your team already runs Airflow DAGs. Which service fits?
Why B is the answer
Managed Service for Apache Airflow
Managed Service for Apache Airflow runs Airflow DAGs that a team already has.
In detail
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow runs your existing DAGs.
- You keep your existing DAGs.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A team's DAGs already run in Airflow, so it moves to the managed service.
See it in different ways
sequenceDiagram participant B as Cloud Build participant P as Agent Platform Pipelines participant R as Model Registry participant E as Endpoint B->>P: Runs after a change P->>P: Validate data and train P->>R: Register if it passes R->>E: Deploy E-->>P: Retrain on a threshold
flowchart TD
Q{"Do you have Airflow DAGs?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Managed Service for Apache Airflow"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Agent Platform Pipelines"]Key point: Managed Airflow runs existing DAGs.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Agent Platform Feature Store
- That holds features.
- C. Cloud Tasks
- That queues tasks.
- D. Cloud Scheduler
- That starts jobs at set times.