Documentation

DEVELOPER GUIDE
Key concepts, tutorials, and instructions for using features

AMAZON STATES LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION
The language used to define state machines in AWS Step Functions

API REFERENCE
How to use the Step Functions API, including actions and data types

STATELINT ON GITHUB
A command-line validator for Amazon States Language JSON files

SERVERLESS FRAMEWORK PLUG-IN
An open-source web framework to help you develop and deploy serverless applications

CREATE A SERVERLESS WORKFLOW
A 10-minute tutorial that shows you how to design and run a simple serverless workflow

What's new - 2019

Date   Announcement  
May 28 AWS Step Functions Enables Access to Workflow Metadata  
May 23 AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Callback Patterns in Workflows  
May 08 AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Workflow Execution Events  
Mar 05 AWS Step Functions Adds Tag-Based Permissions  
Feb 04 Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally  
Jan 24 AWS Step Functions Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement  
Jan 16   AWS Step Functions Now Available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD and AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet  
Jan 08 
 AWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging  

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Webinars

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Build on Serverless: Breaking the Monolith with Step Functions

Traditional monolithic architectures are hard to scale, and can become complex to update and maintain as the code base grows. The good news is that refactoring a monolith safely and easily is possible. Join AWS Solutions Architects Angela Wang and Ronald Widha Sunarno to see how. Angela and Ron will break a monolithic image processing application into multiple functions using AWS Step Functions.

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Media Processing Workflows at High Velocity & Scale using Orchestration & Machine Learning

In this AWS Tech Talk, you’ll hear how AWS customers have improved media supply chains using machine learning in areas such as metadata tagging, translations, transcriptions, and cloud services. You’ll also learn how to use orchestration to optimize velocity and scale of multi-stage media pipelines by examining serverless, event-driven and artificial intelligence M&E use cases.

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Using AWS Batch and AWS Step Functions to Design and Run High Throughput Workflows

AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. Learn how you can reliably orchestrate your batch workflow at scale using AWS Step Functions. This Tech Talk presents an architecture using AWS Batch and AWS Step Functions which fully manages the efficient provisioning of resources and the execution of your workflows.

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Serverless Orchestration of AWS Step Functions

Are you building a serverless application with two or more Lambda functions? In this deep-dive session, learn how to use AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Serverless Application Model to deploy Step Functions state machines, AWS Lambda functions, and IAM roles and policies. We'll also demonstrate how Step Functions orchestrates state transitions and error handling, and how state input/output works.

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Announcing AWS Step Functions

This short video gives you an introduction to AWS Step Functions, a reliable way to orchestrate your distributed applications. Hear how Step Functions automatically triggers and tracks each step, and retries when there are errors, so your application executes in order and as expected. You’ll also learn how Step Functions tracks the state of each step so you can diagnose and debug problems quickly.

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Blogs

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Reference architectures

Long Lived Transactions

Learn how to use AWS Step Functions to manage the complexities of long lived transactions across distributed components in your microservices architecture. You will also use Step Functions to implement the Saga design pattern.

GitHub

Media Analytics

This reference implementation provides guidance to consider when extracting metadata from media files, and provides a serverless AWS solution that combines Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Comprehend.

AWS Answers

Video on Demand

This solution illustrates best practices for implementing video-on-demand on AWS. AWS Lambda triggers AWS Step Functions for ingest, processing, and publishing workflows, and AWS Elemental MediaConvert performs transcoding.

AWS Answers

Image processing and backend

Use AWS Step Functions to orchestrate a serverless processing workflow that processes photos uploaded to S3, extracts metadata from the image, uses image recognition to tag objects in the photo, and creates a photo thumbnail.

GitHub

EBS Snapshot Management

This Snapshot Management Application demonstrates how to use AWS Step Functions with Amazon CloudWatch Events, AWS Lambda and AWS CloudFormation to build a serverless solution for EBS snapshot lifecycle management.

GitHub  |  Blog

Batch for Life Sciences

This companion tutorial to the Genomics Workflows on AWS blog series packages bioinformatics applications using Docker, creates an AWS Batch environment for analysis, and deploys Step Functions to control data processing.

GitHub

Synchronize S3 buckets

Learn how to use AWS Step Functions to one-way synchronize an Amazon S3 source bucket into another S3 destination bucket in a reliable and efficient way, without having to create and populate a new bucket from scratch.

GitHub  |  Blog

Videos

Serverless State Management & Orchestration for Modern App

Learn how to leverage AWS Step Functions to design and run workflows for your serverless, containerized, and instance-based architectures.

ML Workflows with Amazon SageMaker and AWS Step Functions

Learn how you can build, train, and deploy machine learning workflows for Amazon SageMaker on AWS Step Functions, including serverless MLworkflows with less code.

Modernizing Media Supply Chains with AWS Serverless

Learn how Fox and Discovery modernized their media processing workflows with AWS Elemental Media Services, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon API Gateway, and container toolsets.

State Machines in the Wild! How Customers use AWS Step Functions

A series of innovative, high-impact, and just plain crazy applications of state machines from all sorts of customers, including guest star Coca-Cola

Coordinate Microservices, Build Serverless Apps & Automate Tasks  

Hear how AWS customers like Yelp are using Step Functions to break down monoliths, automate recurring tasks, and reliably build and scale multi-step applications.  

Best Practices for Orchestrating AWS Lambda Workloads

See how Step Functions are different from Amazon SWF, how to get started with Step Functions, and how to use them to take your Lambda-based applications to the next level.

Media Intelligence for the Cloud with Amazon AI

Learn how to extract video metadata using Amazon AI services in combination with AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

Automating Incident Response and Forensics

This session focuses on automating your cloud incident response processes covering external and insider threats, triggers, canaries, containment, and data loss prevention.

EC2/ECS Operations Magic with Step Functions

Michael Fischer, lead site reliability engineer at Segment, shares how they use Step Functions to manage EC2 and ECS to help their customers collect data.

Building Advanced Serverless Applications with AWS Step Functions

Hear how using Step Functions to build serverless apps can help developers create reliable products that scale while reclaiming time and energy.

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