Step Functions Application Patterns for Lambda Orchestration

AWS Step Functions is a powerful process management service that you can use to orchestrate other AWS services, such as AWS Lambda. Within Step Functions, you’ll create state machines and event-driven workflows with multiple processes. 

This Cloud Lab is focused on different application patterns of Step Functions that you can use to orchestrate the Lambda functions more effectively. It also focuses on some Step Functions features that reduce the coding overhead and enable the users to focus more on their application. You’ll learn about the practical implementation of these functionalities by creating a document processing pipeline using Step Functions. You’ll start by creating the IAM roles required by different resources within the Cloud Lab. You’ll then create the AWS resources that will be operated using Step Functions. Once all that infrastructure has been set up, you’ll create the state machine leveraging different application patterns of Step Functions. You’ll then trigger the state machine and analyze the impact of these application patterns on the process. In the end, you’ll learn about the error-handling tools of Step Functions and use those tools to implement error handling in your pipeline.

By the end of this lab, you’ll have a strong understanding of how to utilize Step Functions effectively and use its features to make your tasks easier and streamline your workflows.

Here’s a high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you’ll create in this lab: