Workflow Orchestration & Distributed State
Temporal Cloud & AWS Step Functions
Proprietary Cost$500-$45,000+/year ($25/M state transitions + $0.014/MB-hr storage on Temporal Cloud; $0.025/1k state transitions on Step Functions)
Managed workflow orchestration platforms charging per-action state transitions ($25/million transitions) and steep per-GB storage markups.
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