Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components. ... Amazon SWF also provides the AWS Flow Framework to help developers use asynchronous programming in the development of their applications.

What is the main purpose of using Amazon SWF?

Amazon SWF helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. You can think of Amazon SWF as a fully-managed state tracker and task coordinator in the Cloud.

What's AWS SWF?

Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components. ... Amazon SWF also provides the AWS Flow Framework to help developers use asynchronous programming in the development of their applications.