Visual workflows for distributed applications

Benefits of Step Functions

Quick Onboarding

Start building quickly with Workflow Studio, a simple drag-and-drop interface for expressing complex business logic.

Simple Automation

Automate workflows across over 220 AWS services without maintaining code.

Process data on demand

Use code to process data on demand with large-scale parallel workflows

Event-driven architecture visualization

Visualize and develop resilient workflows for event-driven architectures.  

How it works

Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines.

Use cases

Automate extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes

Ensure that multiple long-running ETL jobs run in order and complete successfully, without the need for manual orchestration.

Orchestrate large-scale parallel workloads

Iterate over and process large data-sets such as security logs, transaction data, or image and video files.

Orchestrate microservices

Combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications and microservices.

Automate security and IT functions

Create automated workflows, including manual approval steps, for security incident response.