Orchestrating Responses with Step Functions

Some incident responses involve many steps that must happen in order, with branching and error handling. A single Lambda becomes hard to manage.

AWS Step Functions orchestrates multiple steps into a reliable, visual workflow, making complex remediation manageable and auditable.

Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that coordinates tasks as a state machine.

Each step, or state, performs an action — often invoking a Lambda — and the workflow defines the order, branching, retries, and error handling between them. It manages the flow so each function stays simple.