Starting state machine executions in Step Functions
A state machine execution occurs when an AWS Step Functions state machine runs
and performs its tasks. Each Step Functions state machine can have multiple simultaneous executions,
which you can initiate from the Step Functions
console
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Call the StartExecution API action.
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Start a new execution in the Step Functions console.
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Use Amazon EventBridge to start an execution in response to an event.
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Use Amazon EventBridge Scheduler to start a state machine execution on a schedule.
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Start an execution with Amazon API Gateway.
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Start a nested workflow execution from a Task state.