Recent feature launches

The following table lists dates and links to announcements for recent Step Functions feature releases:

Launch date	Feature description
2024-11-22	Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions
2024-11-14	IaC exports to AWS SAM templates, CloudFormation templates, and to Infrastructure Composer.
2024-06-25	Encrypt workflows, logs, and activities with AWS KMS customer managed keys.
2023-11-26	Invoke HTTPS endpoints and test states with TestState API.
2023-11-15	Restarting state machine executions with redrive in Step Functions
2023-10-12	Add optimized integration for Amazon EMR Serverless
2023-09-07	Enhance error handling
2023-08-31	Workflow Studio enhancements to streamline the authoring experience
2023-06-22	Versions and aliases
2023-06-16	Add seven AWS SDK integrations, including VPC Lattice
2022-12-01	Orchestrate large-scale parallel workflows for data processing with Distributed Map state