My team has been using Step Functions for a couple of months now to orchestrate application deployments. It is way better than our old SWF-based solution - I especially love how easy it is to implement dynamic backoff between states.
Biggest gripe: updating a state machine is still not supported (you can manage state machines through CloudFormation now, but I believe it updates with replacement, meaning the state machine gets blown away and replaced by a new one with the same name.) We've had to roll our own versioning to get around this.
Biggest gripe: updating a state machine is still not supported (you can manage state machines through CloudFormation now, but I believe it updates with replacement, meaning the state machine gets blown away and replaced by a new one with the same name.) We've had to roll our own versioning to get around this.
If you'd like to know more about how we are using Step Functions, as well as some specific benchmark comparisons against our old SWF architecture, feel free to check out this post: https://forrestbrazeal.com/2016/12/29/serverless-workflows-o...