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AWS Step Functions overview

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AWS Step Functions overview

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we'll talk about AWS Step Functions. Step Functions lets you orchestrate the components of a microservices application or any processes into a serverless workflow. A workflow is a series of steps with the output of one step acting as input into the next step. Your workflow defines the process of how your application accomplishes its goal from start to end. In Step Functions, we refer to the workflow as state machines and each step in a state machine is called a state. What's nice about Step Functions is that you can review your state machine visually with its graphical user interface. This is a truly great feature as it can already serve as your blueprint, so you would have a big picture of what you're trying to do when designing a workflow. Having a visual workflow will help you track where you are, your inputs and outputs for each state as you add more steps in your workflow or as you update it. A state machine is defined using the Amazon States…

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