{"slug":"aws-step-functions","name":"AWS Step Functions","owner":null,"repo":null,"category":"orchestration-workflows","lang":"","blurb":"Serverless visual workflow orchestrator for AWS — coordinate Lambda, containers, and 200+ services as durable state machines with built-in retries, error handling, and history.","use_cases":"[]","alternatives":[],"stars":0,"pushed_at":null,"synced_at":null,"kind":"api","one_liner":"Serverless visual workflow orchestrator for AWS — coordinate Lambda, containers, and 200+ services as durable state machines with built-in retries, error handling, and history.","website":"https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/","docs_url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/","signup_url":"https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup","pricing_model":"usage-based","pricing_note":"Standard $0.025 per 1K state transitions (4K free/mo); Express ~$1 per million requests + duration","auth_type":"api-key","agent_signup":"manual-only","agent_signup_note":"The root AWS account needs a human + credit card. After that, IAM/STS mint access keys and CloudFormation/CDK/SDKs provision state machines fully programmatically.","mcp_server":"https://github.com/awslabs/mcp","sdks":["Python","TypeScript","Java","Go",".NET","REST"],"code_sample":"{\"lang\":\"python\",\"code\":\"import boto3\\n\\nsfn = boto3.client(\\\"stepfunctions\\\")\\nresp = sfn.start_execution(\\n    stateMachineArn=\\\"arn:aws:states:us-east-1:123456789012:stateMachine:MyMachine\\\",\\n    input='{\\\"orderId\\\": \\\"123\\\"}',\\n)\\nprint(resp[\\\"executionArn\\\"])\"}","tags":["orchestration","serverless","aws","state-machine","managed"],"useCases":[],"codeSample":{"lang":"python","code":"import boto3\n\nsfn = boto3.client(\"stepfunctions\")\nresp = sfn.start_execution(\n    stateMachineArn=\"arn:aws:states:us-east-1:123456789012:stateMachine:MyMachine\",\n    input='{\"orderId\": \"123\"}',\n)\nprint(resp[\"executionArn\"])"},"oneLiner":"Serverless visual workflow orchestrator for AWS — coordinate Lambda, containers, and 200+ services as durable state machines with built-in retries, error handling, and history.","docsUrl":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/","signupUrl":"https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup","pricingModel":"usage-based","pricingNote":"Standard $0.025 per 1K state transitions (4K free/mo); Express ~$1 per million requests + duration","authType":"api-key","agentSignup":"manual-only","agentSignupNote":"The root AWS account needs a human + credit card. After that, IAM/STS mint access keys and CloudFormation/CDK/SDKs provision state machines fully programmatically.","mcpServer":"https://github.com/awslabs/mcp"}