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AWS Step Functions Developer Guide

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Contents

• What Is AWS Step Functions?
• Getting Started
• Tutorials
  • Development Options
  • Creating a Lambda State Machine
  • Creating a Lambda State Machine Using AWS CloudFormation
  • Creating an Activity State Machine
  • Handling Error Conditions Using a State Machine
  • Starting a State Machine Execution Using CloudWatch Events
  • Creating a Step Functions API Using API Gateway
  • Iterating a Loop Using Lambda
• How Step Functions Works
  • Templates
  • Sample Projects
    • Job Status Poller
    • Task Timer
  • States
  • Tasks
  • Activities
    • Example Activity Worker in Ruby
  • Transitions
  • State Machine Data
  • Executions
  • Error Handling
  • Read Consistency
• Amazon States Language
  • State Machine Structure
  • States
    • Pass
    • Task
    • Choice
    • Wait
    • Succeed
    • Fail
    • Parallel
  • Input and Output Processing
  • Errors
• Best Practices for Step Functions
  • Use Timeouts to Avoid Stuck Executions
  • Use ARNs Instead of Passing Large Payloads
  • Iterate a Count to Avoid Reaching the History Limit
• Limits
• Monitoring and Logging
  • Monitoring Step Functions Using CloudWatch
    • Viewing Metrics for Step Functions
    • Setting Alarms for Step Functions
  • Logging Step Functions using CloudTrail
• Security
  • Creating IAM Roles for AWS Step Functions
  • Creating Granular IAM Permissions for Non-Admin Users
• Document History
• AWS Glossary