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Amazon high throughput? How about Amazon distributed queues?

Amazon EC2 Queue? How about Amazon State Machines? Or Amazon BPM?

FWIW, "Amazon EC2 Queue" actually covers a lot of real world use cases for SWF where a "queue" is needed to manage states and distribute works among workers.

The list is a bit out dated, and as for Amazon State Machines, it's a name more suited for AWS Step Functions, which is the successor of SWF (and defined as an actual state machine). Step Functions do cover lots of SWF use cases (rightfully so as a successor), but also more cases like service orchestration, etc.

Yeah the SWF one is off. I feel like SWF doesn't get enough attention. It's pretty brilliant.

I suspect that the person who made this site worked at Amazon. The way they describe SWF makes me think that the author used it when it was in it's prerelease, "Decider" form. The "Flow" version that went onto become the one that was publicly released has a slightly different set of terminology and doesn't expose the use of queues in the same way the Decider version did. I love publicly released version of SWF and think it's a severely underrated product.

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