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How Step Functions Works

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

Topics

• States
• Transitions
• State Machine Data
• Input and Output Processing
• Executions
• Error Handling
• Service Integrations
• Read Consistency
• Templates
• Tagging