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Why AWS Step Functions is My Favourite Orchestration Service for Microservices

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Lefteris Karageorgiou
Jun 04, 2025
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Building modern applications often involves integrating multiple microservices that perform distinct, focused tasks. Coordinating these microservices to work together seamlessly can be challenging, especially as the complexity of workflows grows. AWS Step Functions simplifies this orchestration by allowing developers to manage distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.

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What are AWS Step Functions?

AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows. It manages state, checkpoints, and retries, so your application logic can be expressed as a state machine. This approach not only simplifies the development of complex w

orkflows but also enhances their reliability and scalability.

What is Step Functions? - AWS Step Functions
A simple State Machine in AWS Step Functions

Why Use Step Functions?

  • Visual Workflow: Step Functions provides a graph…

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