AWS Step Functions: 8 Things You NEED To Know 🔥

AWS Step Functions is a fully managed service that makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications using visual workflows.

Hi Guys, this is Abi from GokceDB and in this video, you are going to learn 8 things about Step Functions in AWS. Let's get into it.

1. Step Functions provides a graphical console to arrange and visualize the components of your application as a series of steps. This makes it easier to build and run distributed applications.

2. AWS Step Functions automatically triggers and tracks each step and retries when there are errors. This allows your application to execute in order and as expected.

3. The service logs the state of each step, so when things do go wrong, you can diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly.

4. You can change and add steps without writing code. This makes it easy to evolve your application and innovate faster.

5. Step Functions helps with any process that can be subdivided into a series of steps. Common use cases include data processing, DevOps automation, and e-commerce worklows such as inventory tracking.

6. When you use Step Functions, you define state machines that describe your process as a series of steps, their relationships, and their inputs and outputs. State machines contain a number of states, each of which represents a step in a workflow diagram.

7. AWS Step Functions state machines are defined in JSON using the Amazon States Language.

8. As of this recording, you get 4,000 state transitions per month for free with the AWS Free Tier.

In summary, AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps you automate processes across 220 AWS services without maintaining code.

There you have it.