Why is AWS Step Functions integral to the Serverless ecosystem?
Why is AWS Step Functions integral to the Serverless ecosystem?
AWS Step Functions makes the life of a Serverless developer easier by allowing you to quickly create complex sequences of tasks in AWS, while taking on the error handling and retry logic and allowing you to decouple your application's business logic from its orchestration logic.
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