Google Cloud and HTTP-based API serverless Workflows now generally available

Google has recently announced that Google Cloud Workflows, the service to orchestrate Google Cloud and HTTP-based API services with serverless workflows, is now generally available. Workflows Connectors are now in public preview.Google Cloud Workflows requires no infrastructure management and scales on demand, including scaling down to zero if no requests are processed.

Google Cloud Workflow can be used to develop complex serverless applications, building on workflows that connect series of serverless tasks together in a predetermined order and work with other managed services like Google Cloud's APIs, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Run.Google Cloud Workflows has a pay-per-use pricing model based on the number of steps and the number of external HTTP calls, with the first 5000 steps and 2000 HTTP calls, thereby making workflow service a platform choice.

Among the features of the new service, an error handling with configurable retry policies, a reliable workflow execution targeted to enterprise and line-of-business applications and the ability to pass information between steps using JSON parsing and expression-based variable manipulations. Workflows publishes connectors to make it easier to access other Google Cloud APIs within a workflow.