We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and Camunda 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."The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"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."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The number of historical events is great."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"Camunda is a scalable product."
"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."
"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."
"I love that Camunda is a very developer-friendly platform, and my customers have evaluated the pricing as reasonable."
"The interface and the number of connectors that they provide are the most valuable features. The support here, it's kind of okay. But the main thing is with the number of connectors and the UI, the user interface."
"Its flexibility stands out as the most valuable feature."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"I think that the positives of Camunda Platform are that our customers can start with the free version. I think it is the most important."
"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."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"The support offered by the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"As we experienced some difficulties in the beginning, deployment took almost a month."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"I have faced problems in bringing up the Cockpit in terms of GUI processes. I think that there is room for improvement in those areas."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"If they could build some scripts or some configuration to get it up and running in a Docker environment, that would be good. I didn't find anything when on Docker, however, maybe they have something and I didn't see it yet."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews while Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 69 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while Camunda is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". AWS Step Functions is most compared with IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Camunda report.
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