Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional topic 1 question 457 discussion

I would go for D, Use case #2: Processing large product catalogs using Amazon Mechanical Turk. https://aws.amazon.com/swf/faqs/

C AWS Step Functions is a fully managed service that makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Instead of writing a Decider program, you define state machines in JSON. AWS customers should consider using Step Functions for new applications. If Step Functions does not fit your needs, then you should consider Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF). Amazon SWF provides you complete control over your orchestration logic, but increases the complexity of developing applications. You may write decider programs in the programming language of your choice, or you may use the Flow framework to use programming constructs that structure asynchronous interactions for you. AWS will continue to provide the Amazon SWF service, Flow framework, and support all Amazon SWF customers. https://aws.amazon.com/swf/faqs/

I would go for D, Use case #2: Processing large product catalogs using Amazon Mechanical Turk. https://aws.amazon.com/swf/faqs/

C is the correct answer, we can implement human approval feature in step function.. SWF is old and not serverless feature.

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It's D 100%. Mechanical Turk = Human intervention = SWF.

D. keyword here is SWF.

Mechanical Turk supports integration with SWF, not Step functions

D IS CORRECT, MECHANICAL TURK DOES NOT SUPPORT STEP FUNCTIONS. SWF IS USED WHERE STEP FUNCTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED.

C. Build the workflow in AWS Step Functions, using it to orchestrate multiple concurrent workflows. The status of each workflow can be visualized in the AWS Management Console, and historical data can be written to Amazon S3 and visualized using Amazon QuickSight.

D. Mechanical Turk works well with SWF, and that is the only few cases where both services complement one another.

D. Use Amazon SWF to create a workflow that handles a single batch of catalog records with multiple worker tasks to extract the data, transform it, and send it through Mechanical Turk. Use Amazon ES and Kibana to visualize AWS Lambda processing logs to see the workflow states.

D is correct or miss it on the test

Option C When should I use Amazon SWF vs. AWS Step Functions? AWS Step Functions is a fully managed service that makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. Instead of writing a Decider program, you define state machines in JSON. AWS customers should consider using Step Functions for new applications. If Step Functions does not fit your needs, then you should consider Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF). Amazon SWF provides you complete control over your orchestration logic, but increases the complexity of developing applications. You may write decider programs in the programming language of your choice, or you may use the Flow framework to use programming constructs that structure asynchronous interactions for you. AWS will continue to provide the Amazon SWF service, Flow framework, and support all Amazon SWF customers.

D is correct answer

C,typical step function question and easy one, hope i can have it in my exam

I will choose D. I won't debate SWF/Step. Rather I use another technique to prove D is correct. Management asked SA to design a workflow which can handle multiple concurrent Mech Turk Operations. PLEASE NOTE. It will be a single workflow with concurrent operations. Ans C says build multiple concurrent workflow, No need. Ans D, says single batch with multiple worker. One more Tips: AWS Mechanical Turk is just a outsourcing service performed by another human via marketplace. Isn't the good reason to use SWF?