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Step Functions

Step Functions - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Step Functions

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- [Instructor] So now I want to cover just briefly Step Functions. You can see more at aws.amazon.com/step-functions. I just want to cover the basic concepts of tasks and state machines here. So tasks are code like Lambda, or an activity that waits for an operator to perform something. You can see more on tasks at the AWS Step Functions Documentation. State machines are based on states, their relationships, and input and output. It's based on the Amazon States Language. And states make their decision based on input, perform actions, and then pass output to other states. You can read more about states at the AWS Step Functions documentation. Some examples of Step Function use might be to sync or back up S3 buckets, email verification, confirmation, or authorization of a process, or also scaling image automation. So let's create one now. So if I go to the Step Functions website, based on the URL I mentioned earlier,…

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