SWF

Question 1

What is SWF?

Answer 1

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.
You can think of Amazon SWF as a fully-managed state tracker and task coordinator in the Cloud

Question 2

What is recommended to use between Step Functions and SWF?

Answer 2

Step Functions is recommended to be used for new applications, except:
• If you need external signals to intervene in the processes
• If you need child processes that return values to parent processes