A Complete Guide to Master Step Functions on AWS

Workflow orchestration made easier

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Motivation

Building and maintaining a complex system remains a common challenge in industry, especially when with cloud infrastructures.

Fortunately, a variety of tools such as AWS Step Functionshave been developed to streamline the orchestration of those workflows, regardless of complexity level.

This article provides a step-by-step guide to use Step Functions from setting up a cloud account to implementing a real life scenario.

What is AWS Step Functions?

AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service with the main purpose of creating of visual workflows. It enables a seamless coordination of AWS Lambda functions and other AWS resources.

Step functions can be integrated with Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, on-premise servers, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon SQS queues, to name a few. This versatility of AWS Step Functions makes it suitable for a wide range of applications.

Getting Started with AWS Step Functions

The goal of this section is to provide the steps to getting started with AWS Step Functions, from understanding the building blocks to…