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Google Cloud Workflows is a fully managed orchestration service that lets you execute multi-step workflows by combining Google Cloud services, APIs, and custom code. Unlike event-driven, fire-and-forget patterns, Workflows provides a durable, stateful execution engine that tracks progress, handles errors, and supports long-running processes.
Workflows lets you define a series of steps — calling APIs, running Cloud Functions, invoking Cloud Run services, waiting for events, and performing logic — in a declarative YAML or JSON format. The Workflows engine executes each step, manages state, handles retries, and provides observability.
| Characteristic | Description |
|---|---|
| Fully managed | No servers, clusters, or infrastructure to manage |
| Durable execution | State is persisted — workflows survive infrastructure failures |
| Long-running | Workflows can run for up to one year |
| Serverless pricing | Pay per step executed (first 5,000 steps/month free) |
| Built-in error handling | Try/catch, retry policies, and custom error handling |
| Connectors | Pre-built connectors for 20+ Google Cloud services |
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