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Category: AWS Step Functions
Introducing cross-account access capabilities for AWS Step Functions
This post demonstrates how to create a Step Functions Express Workflow in one account and call it from a Step Functions Standard Workflow in another account using a new credentials capability of AWS Step Functions.
Enriching operational events with AWS Serverless
This post shows how you can create rules in EventBridge to react to operational events from AWS services. These events are routed to Step Functions, which runs a workflow consisting of steps to enrich the event, handle errors, and emit the enriched event. The example shows how to consume the enriched events, resulting in an operator receiving an email.
Implementing a UML state machine using AWS Step Functions
This post is written by Michael Havey, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS This post shows how to model a Unified Modeling Language (UML) state machine as an AWS Step Functions workflow. A UML state machine models the behavior of an object, naming each of its possible resting states and specifying how it moves from one […]
ICYMI: Serverless Q3 2022
Welcome to the 19th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened […]
Migrating mainframe JCL jobs to serverless using AWS Step Functions
This conversion example shows how Step Functions can help you rewrite complex batch processes written in JCL to serverless workflows. It also shows how such a conversion provides maintenance and monitoring features that make it easier to simplify and scale these batch processes.
ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2022
Welcome to the 18th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened […]
Introducing the new AWS Step Functions Workflows Collection
Today, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team introduces the Step Functions Workflows Collection, a fresh experience that makes it easier to discover, deploy, and share Step Functions workflows. Builders create Step Functions workflows to orchestrate multiple services into business-critical applications with minimal code. Customers were looking for opinionated templates that implement best practices for building […]
Building a low-code speech “you know” counter using AWS Step Functions
This post is written by Doug Toppin, Software Development Engineer, and Kishore Dhamodaran, Solutions Architect. In public speaking, filler phrases can distract the audience and reduce the value and impact of what you are telling them. Reviewing recordings of presentations can be helpful to determine whether presenters are using filler phrases. Instead of manually reviewing […]
Orchestrating AWS Glue crawlers using AWS Step Functions
This blog post is written by Justin Callison, General Manager, AWS Workflow. Organizations generate terabytes of data every day in a variety of semistructured formats. AWS Glue and Amazon Athena can give you a simpler and more cost-effective way to analyze this data with no infrastructure to manage. AWS Glue crawlers identify the schema of […]
Combining Amazon AppFlow with AWS Step Functions to maximize application integration benefits
This blog post explores how to integrate Amazon AppFlow and AWS Glue using Step Functions to automate your business requirements. You can use AWS Lambda to simplify the configuration phase and reduce state transitions or create complex checks, filters, or even data cleansing and preparation.