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Implementing AWS Step Functions - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for Developers: Step Functions
Implementing AWS Step Functions
- [Instructor] As you probably know, there's no better way to learn something than by actually doing it. So for our project, we're going to create a workflow for processing an online order using several AWS Lambda functions. Let's disclose the architecture of this project right now. Our end goal is to take an input document such as this one, and we're going to build a Step Functions state machine that handles these parameters and in the end, create an updated version of this station document as a result of passing it through several Lambda functions. So for our purposes, we're going to calculate packet shipment details such as package weight and distance to be traveled, estimate delivery times and more. Think of this process as being part of a larger workflow in an eCommerce operation. And in this case, it's our job to determine how, or if we can fulfill a certain customer order. We're going to include error handling where…
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