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AWS Step Functions

Visual workflows for distributed applications
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What is AWS Step Functions

✔ Simple Automation: Automate workflows across over 220 AWS services without maintaining code.

✔ Process data on-demand: Use code to process data on demand with large-scale parallel workflows.

✔ Event-driven architecture visualization: Visualize and develop resilient workflows for event-driven architectures.

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Use Cases

Automate extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes

Ensure that multiple long-running ETL jobs run in order and complete successfully, without the need for manual orchestration.

Orchestrate large-scale parallel workloads

Iterate over and process large data-sets such as security logs, transaction data, or image and video files.

Orchestrate microservices

Combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications and microservices.

Automate security and IT functions

Create automated workflows, including manual approval steps, for security incident response.

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AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.

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4,000 state transitions per month

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AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.
ALWAYS FREE

4,000 state transitions per month

AWS Step Functions Pricing »
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Learn more about building with AWS Step Functions

Browse through our collection of case studies and videos to learn more about AWS Step Functions

  • Customer Stories

  • Helping Doctors treat Pediatric Cancer using AWS Serverless services

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    Reducing Processing Time for ML Workflow Using AWS Step Functions Distributed Map with CyberGRX

  • Videos
  • Serverless 101: AWS Step Functions (5:45)
    Build workflows visually with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio - with a working DEMO (20:35)
    Introduction to AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio (3:15)
    AWS re:Invent 2023 - Advanced serverless workflow patterns and best practices (API401) (51:46)

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