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Younis Jad
Younis Jad

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AWS Step Functions vs Temporal: Comparison for Workflow Orchestration

TLDR: AWS Step Functions and Temporal are two workflow orchestration solutions for building event-driven architectures. AWS Step Functions provides an easy-to-use platform for building state machines and integrations with AWS services, while Temporal provides more flexibility with support for multiple programming languages, granular resilience policies, and more scalable messaging. Temporal’s features, including flexibility and fine control over workflow executions, make it ideal for developers building event-driven systems using open-source solutions. AWS Step Functions is useful when building with AWS services and needing tight integration among these services.

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