AWS Step Functions is a low-code, visual workflow service used to orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. In this course, you learn how to implement logging, monitoring, and tracing in your Step Functions workflows using a variety of AWS services. You learn how to build workflows and how to integrate Step Functions with other Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. You also learn how to debug and troubleshoot Step Functions state machines when they fail.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 90 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Integrate and use Step Functions with other AWS services
• Implement monitoring, tracing, and logging in your Step Functions workflows
• Debug and troubleshoot Step Functions workflows when there are failures or other issues
• Incorporate best practices for the reliability, performance, security, operational excellence, and cost pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Intended audience

This course is intended for experienced developers and cloud architects who are familiar with the AWS Cloud and the concepts behind Step Functions.

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Familiarity with AWS Step Functions
• Familiarity with serverless technologies
• Introduction to AWS Step Functions
• How AWS Step Functions Work