Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) Reviews & Product Details

the ability and ease at which I can organize my inflow inputs and outputs of tasks, as well as easy to understand navigation - keep historical logs of workflows, easily organize and see any upcoming workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

can be difficult to integrate with some tasks and programs, but that is the outlier, easier to work with AWS programs, which can add up in cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like about AWS Simple Work Flow is it has all kind of APIs that connect all AWS services together for your use and runs stable. You can design your work flow very easily and scale it with simple configuration. It has the ability to scale to match your business growth. I also like the notification it pushes to system operators that we don't have to manually check where the workflow is now. Overall, I am very happy about AWS SWF brought to our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found anything I do not like yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SWF is good at holding state for a very long time and integrating with a lot of different services. It's one of few services good at integrating with human feedback when a portion of your workflow occurs in the real, physical world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is extremely bulky and finicky. We had issues with it failing to recognize events and querying the state is extremely unwieldy. We used a serverless system to query the workflow to figure out current state and it was terrible to do, because it required downloading the entire history of the entire workflow to get to the most recent events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SWF is a quick and efficient solution to triggering workflows and getting work done in an automated fashion. It can be combined with Lambda for serverless solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Based on my usage of Amazon Simple Workflow so far, there haven't been any opportunities for me to dislike something about the console.

In regards to the technology in general though, it is hard to think of solutions in a step function fashion. CloudWatch also has limitations in terms of latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SWF is a great framework for formalizing complex workflows. It establishes a standard methodology that facilitates the integrations of tasks and jobs that are designed and fulfilled in disparate locations so that the various teams get the necessary visibility into the processes that precede as well as follow their own tasks. This applies at the human level as well as the software level where applications notify each other of progress in a methodical manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As can be expected of such a powerful tool, the ramp up process is difficult. It is possible that the workflow control will have to be adjusted several times to account for unforeseen situations before a stable workflow is achieved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS API directly (using the .Net SDK).

If you are using Java Or Ruby amazon provider a higher level library for SWF called Flow Framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rate Limiting and Throttling. More specifically, limiting number of operations per second. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This AWS simple work flow is very good such that the logical separation of the control flow happens very quick and the flow is very flexible to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not dislike anything as of now If there is any I will inform to G2 Crowd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great user interface with simple navigation. Easy to monitor via Amazon Cloudwatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The number of operations per seconds are limited and could be difficult to raise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the smoothness of it all, along with the accurateness! Easy to understand & flow thru the process! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really! It has been easy to process thru things & quite understandable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It makes workflows work great which enabled us make different systems run interactively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

But it is not as simple as it is called. It is hard to configure and a bad interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.