We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Workload Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"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."
"The number of historical events is great."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"MuleSoft offers with the Anypoint Platform a unified platform for API management and an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as well as an on-premise Enterprise Service Bus pattern."
"API management."
"The integration potential is excellent."
"The flexibility has been great overall."
"The community manager is the standout feature of the Mule Anypoint Platform, as it provides a platform to showcase your API to external parties. It is exceptionally user-friendly and enables external parties to easily utilize and consume the APIs."
"Mule works very well with Salesforce and CRMs."
"When we talk about the APIs, there are multiple policies one can apply on APIs, like rate limiting policies, OWASP policies, and OWASP security policies, that can be easily configured in Mule Anypoint Platform."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"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."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"One area we'd like to see improvement in is the error logging and troubleshooting process."
"The platform's data integration tools need improvement on the processing side."
"Although the solution's proxy design and process are good, it faces connecting issues because it lacks data integration."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"The stability could be better."
"Pricing is one aspect of the solution that is troublesome. It's too expensive for smaller organizations."
"Price-wise, it is a good product since it is reasonably priced...Mule Anypoint Platform can get too complex for non-technical people."
"I would like to see some data integration and automation."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 8th in Workload Automation with 41 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while Mule Anypoint Platform 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 Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM and Oracle BPM, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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