Amazon Flow Framework

The book I read to research this post was AWS Flow Framework Developer Guide which is very good and which I downloaded for free from kindle. I think Amazon needs to simplify their web services and I think at over 20 there are too many. Anyway this service isn't that different to Beanstalk on which you can run software you write yourself. Also it works in conjunction with Simple Workflow Framework or SWF. With Flow Framework you write a program in java and eclipse and it can do tasks like process credit cards. You might for example want it to process the payment and if the card bounces or the buyer cancels the order you cancel posting him the merchandise. To write the program you need AWS for java software development kit or SDK and also the latest eclipse software. If you need to do something like change the time out setting look in the documentation for AWS for java SDK. You can use Flow Framework in conjunction with a datacenter server at your place of work although you should be buying less computer hardware and letting Amazon take care of that. Often you will give Flow Framework lots of tasks and it will have to be done in a certain order because one process is dependent on another task having been done. Flow Framework does a good job of this.