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's best feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Airflow is creating and scheduling jobs. Additionally, the reattempt at failed jobs is useful."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"The product is stable."
"One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The number of historical events is great."
"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."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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 scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"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."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
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 8 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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