AWS Step Functions - AWS Toolkit for VS Code
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AWS Step Functions

With AWS Step Functions, you can create workflows (also called state machines) to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning pipelines. The following topics describe how to work with AWS Step Functions in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. For detailed information about the AWS Step Functions service, see the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.