We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and Redwood RunMyJobs 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."AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"We can create and test micro-workflows to find defects sooner."
"It can centralize and support on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments seamlessly."
"We can achieve anything that anything that we would like to do. In SAP, it's not generally possible with just with SAP. So we have solution manager as an option, but run by job."
"Multi-platform scheduling makes it easier this way rather than accessing one platform at a time."
"It is very easy and easy to use, and minimal supervision is required to run it."
"One of Redwood Software's features that I liked was its event-driven automation, which allows IT teams to respond to real-time events, alerts, and notifications from numerous systems."
"REL expressions are quite helpful for setting up the preconditions."
"It saves us a lot of time and money by doing jobs automatically."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"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 price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Due to the abundance of competing automation technologies available on the market, connectivity with any cloud platform can be improved."
"The documentation for this product is limited, which can be improved in the future."
"I have not noted any downsides."
"Customer support should be enhanced so that we can automatically raise tickets and incidents in customer service."
"We need the ability to pull data into an Excel format."
"The dashboard provided can be made more visually appealing and could include more critical data that would help associates in one glance get the required information."
"There is a lack of resources and product documentation which, if included, would help to gain more knowledge about the application."
"Enhancing the user interface would make it more appealing and accessible to a wide range of users."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 15th in Workload Automation with 9 reviews while Redwood RunMyJobs is ranked 3rd in Workload Automation with 30 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while Redwood RunMyJobs is rated 9.6. 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 Redwood RunMyJobs writes "Simple to use, increases CPU speed, and reduces the cost of machine time". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM and Oracle BPM, whereas Redwood RunMyJobs is most compared with Control-M, Stonebranch, Tidal by Redwood, AutoSys Workload Automation and Automic Workload Automation. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Redwood RunMyJobs report.
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