Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

CreateStateMachine

Creates a state machine. A state machine consists of a collection of states that can do work (Task states), determine to which states to transition next (Choice states), stop an execution with an error (Fail states), and so on. State machines are specified using a JSON-based, structured language. For more information, see Amazon States Language in the AWS Step Functions User Guide.

If you set the publish parameter of this API action to true, it publishes version 1 as the first revision of the state machine.

For additional control over security, you can encrypt your data using a customer-managed key for Step Functions state machines. You can configure a symmetric AWS KMS key and data key reuse period when creating or updating a State Machine. The execution history and state machine definition will be encrypted with the key applied to the State Machine.

Note

This operation is eventually consistent. The results are best effort and may not reflect very recent updates and changes.

Note

CreateStateMachine is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if it was already created. CreateStateMachine's idempotency check is based on the state machine name, definition, type, LoggingConfiguration, TracingConfiguration, and EncryptionConfiguration The check is also based on the publish and versionDescription parameters. If a following request has a different roleArn or tags, Step Functions will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, roleArn and tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Request Syntax


{
   "definition": "string",
   "encryptionConfiguration": { 
      "kmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds": number,
      "kmsKeyId": "string",
      "type": "string"
   },
   "loggingConfiguration": { 
      "destinations": [ 
         { 
            "cloudWatchLogsLogGroup": { 
               "logGroupArn": "string"
            }
         }
      ],
      "includeExecutionData": boolean,
      "level": "string"
   },
   "name": "string",
   "publish": boolean,
   "roleArn": "string",
   "tags": [ 
      { 
         "key": "string",
         "value": "string"
      }
   ],
   "tracingConfiguration": { 
      "enabled": boolean
   },
   "type": "string",
   "versionDescription": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

definition

The Amazon States Language definition of the state machine. See Amazon States Language.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1048576.

Required: Yes

encryptionConfiguration

Settings to configure server-side encryption.

Type: EncryptionConfiguration object

Required: No

loggingConfiguration

Defines what execution history events are logged and where they are logged.

Note

By default, the level is set to OFF. For more information see Log Levels in the AWS Step Functions User Guide.

Type: LoggingConfiguration object

Required: No

name

The name of the state machine.

A name must not contain:

white space
brackets < > { } [ ]
wildcard characters ? *
special characters " # % \ ^ | ~ ` $ & , ; : /
control characters (U+0000-001F, U+007F-009F)

To enable logging with CloudWatch Logs, the name should only contain 0-9, A-Z, a-z, - and _.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 80.

Required: Yes

publish

Set to true to publish the first version of the state machine during creation. The default is false.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

roleArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role to use for this state machine.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

tags

Tags to be added when creating a state machine.

An array of key-value pairs. For more information, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide, and Controlling Access Using IAM Tags.

Tags may only contain Unicode letters, digits, white space, or these symbols: _ . : / = + - @.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

tracingConfiguration

Selects whether AWS X-Ray tracing is enabled.

Type: TracingConfiguration object

Required: No

type

Determines whether a Standard or Express state machine is created. The default is STANDARD. You cannot update the type of a state machine once it has been created.

Type: String

Valid Values: STANDARD | EXPRESS

Required: No

versionDescription

Sets description about the state machine version. You can only set the description if the publish parameter is set to true. Otherwise, if you set versionDescription, but publish to false, this API action throws ValidationException.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "creationDate": number,
   "stateMachineArn": "string",
   "stateMachineVersionArn": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

creationDate

The date the state machine is created.

Type: Timestamp

stateMachineArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the created state machine.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

stateMachineVersionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the created state machine version. If you do not set the publish parameter to true, this field returns null value.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ConflictException

Updating or deleting a resource can cause an inconsistent state. This error occurs when there're concurrent requests for DeleteStateMachineVersion, PublishStateMachineVersion, or UpdateStateMachine with the publish parameter set to true.

HTTP Status Code: 409

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArn

The provided Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidDefinition

The provided Amazon States Language definition is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidEncryptionConfiguration

Received when encryptionConfiguration is specified but various conditions exist which make the configuration invalid. For example, if type is set to CUSTOMER_MANAGED_KMS_KEY, but kmsKeyId is null, or kmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds is not between 60 and 900, or the AWS KMS key is not symmetric or inactive.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidLoggingConfiguration

Configuration is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidName

The provided name is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidTracingConfiguration

Your tracingConfiguration key does not match, or enabled has not been set to true or false.

HTTP Status Code: 400

KmsAccessDeniedException

Either your AWS KMS key policy or API caller does not have the required permissions.

HTTP Status Code: 400

KmsThrottlingException

Received when AWS KMS returns ThrottlingException for a AWS KMS call that Step Functions makes on behalf of the caller.

HTTP Status Code: 400

StateMachineAlreadyExists

A state machine with the same name but a different definition or role ARN already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

StateMachineDeleting

The specified state machine is being deleted.

HTTP Status Code: 400

StateMachineLimitExceeded

The maximum number of state machines has been reached. Existing state machines must be deleted before a new state machine can be created.

HTTP Status Code: 400

StateMachineTypeNotSupported

State machine type is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTags

You've exceeded the number of tags allowed for a resource. See the Limits Topic in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The input does not satisfy the constraints specified by an AWS service.

HTTP Status Code: 400