According to Amazon Simple Workflow Service Limits:
Limits on Workflow Executions
- Maximum open workflow executions: 100,000 per domain
However, the Amazon SWF Limit Increase Form states:
Amazon SWF users can create a maximum of 100 domains per account. [...] Upto 10,000 workflow executions can be open at a time in each domain, which means that upto a million executions can be open simultaneously in each user account.
Either way, Amazon can change the limit for customers who've requested it.
Is there a way of getting these figures from the API for my account, for a definitive answer?
Can I see them somewhere in the interface?
The rate limit information was recently added to CloudWatch:
StartWorkflowExecution
can be seen in All > SWF > API Usage Metrics.ScheduleActivityTask
or StartChildWorkflowExecution
are at All >
SWF > Decision Usage Metrics.Each API or Decision type has metrics for its ProvisionedBucketSize and ProvisionedRefillRate.
For example, here is the rate limit for StartChildWorkflowExecution
(the link is for us-east-1):
There are also metrics for ThrottledEvents and ConsumedCapacity, so you can keep track of how much you use the API, and how often it fails.
A new CloudWatch dashboard shows all of the limits in one place: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home?region=us-east-1#cw:dashboard=SWF