AWS Step Functions

Orchestrate distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows (state machines); manage sequence, error handling, and parallel execution across 200+ AWS services.

AWS Step Functions provides robust serverless workflow orchestration. It uses state machines, defined in the Amazon States Language (ASL), to coordinate components of distributed applications, ensuring reliable execution. You define the workflow visually in the console, integrating with over 200 AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB) and over 10,000 API actions. Step Functions handles complex logic: error handling, retries, parallel branches, and long-running tasks. This is critical for use cases like ETL pipelines (with AWS Glue) and coordinating complex microservice architectures.

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