Overview of AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions is a serverless workflow service that provides integration with several AWS services natively, which means you can create a workflow that is able to integrate or invoke actions of all the supported AWS services.

AWS Step Functions provides both a visual interface and a JSON based-definition approach to design workflows. With the visual interface, you can drag and drop different AWS service actions and modify their parameters to integrate a workflow. In addition to the visual interface, Step Functions also provides the option to code your workflow with a JSON-based definition called a state machine, where each step is referred to as a state. Step Functions also provides a few sample projects that are frequently in use, which you can inherit and modify for your use case.

You can integrate AWS Step Functions to automate IT business processes or build data or machine learning pipelines, or can integrate it to design real-time, event...