Amazon Simple Workflow Service: Developer Guide

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF). This developer guide introduces Amazon SWF workflows and provides an in-depth look at the structure and components of a workflow. The guide teaches you how to use Amazon SWF to build applications which coordinate tasks across distributed components without worrying about underlying complexities such as progress tracking and state maintenance. Amazon SWF is suitable for a range of use cases that require coordination of tasks, including media processing, web application back-ends, business process workflows, and analytics pipelines.