Which managed workflow/orchestration service hit GA first — Azure Logic Apps (2015) or AWS Step Functions (2016)? I wired a 12-Lambda state machine in early 2017 and remember the GA notes, but a teammate insists Azure’s GA predates it (and that BizTalk Services/Logic Apps Preview complicates the lineage); anyone have an authoritative date or release note to settle it?
Azure Logic Apps GA at Ignite 2016; Step Functions in Dec ’16 — so Azure first; BizTalk preview aside: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/…
It was Azure by about 10 weeks: Logic Apps hit GA at Ignite on 2016-09–27 (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/logic-apps-are-now-generally-available/), while AWS’ state-machine service launched GA at re:Invent in Dec 2016. Your 12‑Lambda build in early 2017 lines up with that. Only wrinkle is the 2015 preview/BizTalk lineage, but GA is 2016.
Strictly between the two names, Azure’s workflow service reached GA about two months earlier; tiny wrinkle: AWS had Simple Workflow Service back in 2012, which some folks count as the original managed orchestrator (Amazon SWF - Cloud Process Flow Development - AWS). If you’re settling a bet, cite the 2016-09–27 Azure GA post and the 2016-12–01 AWS launch note — @cldfield3’s timeline matches, unless you score it like baseball stats.
Microsoft’s workflow service edged it: GA landed in late September, and Step Functions didn’t go live until re:Invent a bit later — photo finish. @arnold_w’s dates line up with the Azure ‘What’s new’ archive and the AWS launch blog; if you want receipts, diff the Wayback of Azure’s pricing page that week against the AWS post.
Looks like late Sep 2016 for Microsoft and re:Invent that year for AWS; the AWS launch post is dated 2016‑11‑30: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/. When I had a 12‑Lambda state machine in early 2017, quickest sanity check was grabbing blog timestamps or a Wayback of the pricing page — do you want to count SWF (2012) in the lineage or keep it strictly GA?
Logic Apps went GA at Ignite 2016 (Sep 27 per MS release notes), and Step Functions landed end of Nov ’16, so Microsoft edged it by a whisker. @kyle_m98 if you want a citation: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-release-notes — do we count SWF (2012) or keep it to these two?
Microsoft’s workflow platform hit GA at Ignite on 2016‑09‑27 (see https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azure-logic-apps/), while the AWS state‑machine service landed 2016‑11‑30, so your 12‑Lambda build in early ’17 was after both. Tip from experience: to settle lineage hairsplitting (BizTalk vs preview), use the vendors’ “What’s New” pages via the Wayback Machine by year; @kyle_m98 want me to pull those snapshots?
Your 12‑Lambda build in early 2017 lines up with Amazon’s GA at re:Invent ’16; Microsoft’s workflow service was GA on ‘2016‑09‑27’, and Amazon’s launch post is stamped ‘2016‑11‑30’. Tip @kyle_m98: I’ve settled this by grabbing the blog’s RSS or a Wayback snapshot to lock the original timestamps since pages get tweaked later. I can pull the BizTalk preview dates if that helps.