Specification-driven composition for flexible data workflows | Amazon Web Services

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Introduces the specification-driven composition pattern for data workflows, detailing its benefits and core components (specification, composer, capability registry, capability pipeline). Presents a serverless AWS implementation using Lambda, Step Functions, S3, and OpenSearch, including an example workflow specification and architectural diagram. Explains how this pattern addresses scalability bottlenecks, improves governance, and enables flexible pipeline design by separating workflow intent from execution logic.