Standard vs Express AWS Step Functions - Whats The Difference?

Standard Step Functions offer an effective means to create distributed workflows on the AWS ecosystem. These types of workflows are usually long running and offer exactly once processing, best suitable for non-idempotent tasks. Express functions are a newer offering that allow developers to create short duration workflows that operate at higher throughput. In this video, I discuss the difference between Standard and Express AWS Step Functions including their distinct features, use cases, and functionality.

00:38 What are AWS Standard Step Functions?
05:53 Example Use Case for Standard Step Functions
06:50 What are AWS Express Step Functions?
10:43 Example Use Cases for Express Step Functions

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[PavelNesterov]

Good job. I just became a donated through the Patreon to your channel, because the content you produce is really saving my time as a learner. Thank you, Daniel

[hassanabuhaalah]

Another banger!! Keep them coming - super helpful

[preethipravalika]

Thanks for the insightful video.
Re : express workflows are built on top of lambda functions, any reference or documentation that stats so. I wasn't able to find any

[MohammadMNajar]

from an scalability perspective, how does 2000 starts/sec scale to a large event-based application? Say we want to process 300, 000 at one time (pretty small number), can Standard SF not able to handle that volume? Or is the processing model different in AWS?

[gaurravprakash]

The example for express function - Instagram. It can be a problem if the same photo(post) gets pushed twice because of a duplicate execution of express step function. What do you think of it?

[farzadb]

Thanks for the great summary.
Re that 5 min limit, is it hard limit? Seems too low!

[ErlonSousaPinheiro]

Excelent video. Congrats! By the way.... which software you are using for the drawing?

[susmitdey]

express makes no sense, state engine that doesnt store the state, runs for max 5minutes, ok that's not practical