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Use AMS SSP to provision Amazon Simple Workflow Service in your AMS account

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Use AMS SSP to provision Amazon Simple Workflow Service in your AMS account - AMS Advanced User Guide

Use AMS Self-Service Provisioning (SSP) mode to access Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) capabilities directly in your AMS managed account. Amazon Simple Workflow Service 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. If your application's steps take more than 500 milliseconds to complete, you need to track the state of processing, or you need to recover or retry if a task fails, Amazon SWF can help you. To learn more, see Amazon Simple Workflow Service.

Amazon SWF in AWS Managed Services FAQs

Common questions and answers:

Q: How do I request access to Amazon SWF in my AMS account?

Request access by submitting a Management | AWS service | Self-provisioned service | Add change type (ct-1w8z66n899dct). This RFC provisions the following IAM role to your account: customer_swf_role. Once provisioned in your account, you must onboard the role in your federation solution.

Q: What are the restrictions to using Amazon SWF in my AMS account?

The Lambda InvokeFunction permissions have been included in this service however, the AMS customer_deny_policy that is added to all AMS customer roles explicitly denies access to AMS Lambda functions and AMS-owned resources. In order to tag or untag resources within Amazon SWF, submit a Management | Other | Other Change Type.

Q: What are the prerequisites or dependencies to using Amazon SWF in my AMS account?

Amazon SWF is dependent on the AWS Lambda service, therefore, permissions to invoke Lambda have been provided as a part of this role and no additional permissions are required to invoke Lambda from Amazon SWF. Otherwise, there are no prerequisites to using Amazon SWF.

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