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."The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"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."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The number of historical events is great."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"UI can be improved with additional user-friendly features for non-programmers and for fewer coding practitioner requirements."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"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."
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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