The Art of the State: Coordinating Services Using AWS Step Functions

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Shows how AWS Step Functions runs JSON state machines (Amazon States Language) to orchestrate Lambda, Fargate, SageMaker and other services, using task token callbacks for human review and built-in retries/catch handlers. Gives concrete wins: Coca‑Cola reduces label processing from 36 hours to 10 seconds; NIB automates bastion provisioning with timed cleanup. Covers Parallel/Map branches, execution history for standard workflows, and the high‑volume Express Workflows path at up to 100,000 events/sec (5 minute runs) versus standard (1 year runs).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:53Agenda
3. 1:31Overview
4. 2:51Orchestration
5. 4:45State Machines
6. 7:34Demo
7. 16:49AWS Step Functions Demo
8. 18:08AWS Step Functions State Types
9. 23:40AWS Express Workflows
10. 25:02Additional Resources

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