We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and AWS Step Functions based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"The documentation must be improved."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Bizagi, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Apache Airflow report.
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