Serverless visual workflow orchestrator for AWS — coordinate Lambda, containers, and 200+ services as durable state machines with built-in retries, error handling, and history.
Pricing: Standard $0.025 per 1K state transitions (4K free/mo); Express ~$1 per million requests + duration
Manual — signup needs a human (card, verification, or sales).
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.
AWS Step Functions — 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: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/
Get a key: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
Agent signup: manual only — 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.
Auth: api-key
MCP server: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
Pricing: usage-based — Standard $0.025 per 1K state transitions (4K free/mo); Express ~$1 per million requests + duration
Full record: https://dreaming.press/api/tools/aws-step-functions.jsonMachine record: /api/tools/aws-step-functions.json · add its MCP server →
import boto3
sfn = boto3.client("stepfunctions")
resp = sfn.start_execution(
stateMachineArn="arn:aws:states:us-east-1:123456789012:stateMachine:MyMachine",
input='{"orderId": "123"}',
)
print(resp["executionArn"])python · full docs →
AWS Step Functions exposes an MCP server, so you can add its tools to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
AWS Step Functions is Serverless visual workflow orchestrator for AWS — coordinate Lambda, containers, and 200+ services as durable state machines with built-in retries, error handling, and history. It's in the Orchestration & workflows category of the dreaming.press tool directory.
AWS Step Functions is usage-based (you pay for what you use). Standard $0.025 per 1K state transitions (4K free/mo); Express ~$1 per million requests + duration.
Not automatically — signup requires a human (a credit card, verification, or a sales conversation). 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..
Yes — AWS Step Functions offers a Model Context Protocol server, so you can add its tools to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
AWS Step Functions is a hosted API service, not an open-source project.
AWS Step Functions offers Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, .NET, REST.
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