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AWS mwaa medium security documentation change

Service: mwaa · 2026-05-22 · Security-related medium

File: mwaa/latest/userguide/configuring-env-variables.md

Summary

Added 'Unsupported configurations' section documenting incompatible Airflow options including security-related limitations.

Security assessment

Explicitly documents that 'core.multi_team' is unsupported due to incompatibility with MWAA authentication and secrets management, preventing misconfigurations that could compromise access controls. Also notes 'triggerer.queues_enabled' causes operational failures.

Diff

diff --git a/mwaa/latest/userguide/configuring-env-variables.md b/mwaa/latest/userguide/configuring-env-variables.md
index 5482d8a33..1992c2a02 100644
--- a//mwaa/latest/userguide/configuring-env-variables.md
+++ b//mwaa/latest/userguide/configuring-env-variables.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-PrerequisitesHow it worksUsing configuration options to load pluginsConfiguration options overviewConfiguration referenceExamples and sample codeWhat's next?
+PrerequisitesHow it worksUsing configuration options to load pluginsConfiguration options overviewConfiguration referenceUnsupported configurationsExamples and sample codeWhat's next?
@@ -42,0 +43,2 @@ Apache Airflow configuration options can be attached to your Amazon Managed Work
+  * [Unsupported configurations](./configuring-env-variables.html#configuring-env-variables-unsupported)
+
@@ -194,0 +197,9 @@ triggerer.default_capacity (in v2) triggerer.capacity (in v3) |  Defines the num
+## Unsupported configurations
+
+The following Apache Airflow configuration options are not available in Amazon MWAA. You cannot set or override these options using the Amazon MWAA console or API.
+
+Airflow configuration option | Apache Airflow version | Default value | Reason  
+---|---|---|---  
+core.multi_team |  3.2 |  False |  Amazon MWAA does not currently support [multi-team mode](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/configurations-ref.html#multi-team). Enabling this feature is incompatible with Amazon MWAA authentication, the CeleryExecutor, and environment-level secrets management.  
+triggerer.queues_enabled |  3.2 |  False |  Amazon MWAA does not support [triggerer queue assignment](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/authoring-and-scheduling/deferring.html#controlling-triggerer-host-assignment-per-trigger). Enabling this option causes deferred tasks to hang indefinitely.  
+