How Step Functions works

This section describes important concepts to help you get familiar with AWS Step Functions and understand how it works.

Topics

• Standard vs. Express Workflows
• States
• Map state processing modes
• Tolerated failure threshold for Distributed Map state
• Transitions
• State Machine Data
• Input and Output Processing
• Data flow simulator
• Versions and aliases
• Executions
• Error handling
• Invoke Step Functions
• Read Consistency
• Tagging in Step Functions