Accessing Airflow REST API in AWS Managed Workflows?

Question

I have Airflow running in AWS MWAA, I would like to access REST API and there are 2 ways to do this but doesn't seem to work for me.

1. Overriding api.auth_backend. This used to work and now AWS MWAA won't allow you to add this, it is consider as 'blocklist' and not allow.
   api.auth_backend = airflow.api.auth.backend.default

2. Using MWAA Cli(Python). This doesn't work if any of the DAGs uses packages that are in requirments.txt file.
   a. as an example, I have "paramiko" in requirements.txt because I have a task that uses SSHOperator. The MWAA Cli fails with "no module paramiko"

   b. Also noted here, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mwaa/latest/userguide/access-airflow-ui.html "Any command that parses a DAG (such as list_dags, backfill) will fail if the DAG uses plugins that depend on packages that are installed through requirements.txt."

Answer 1

We are using MWAA 2.0.2 and managed to use Airflow's Rest-API through MWAA CLI, basically following the instructions and sample codes of the Apache Airflow CLI command reference. You'll notice that not all Rest-API calls are supported, but many of them are (even when you have a requirements.txt in place).

Also have a look at AWS sample codes on GitHub.