Reasons for Step Functions

Some good reasons to use Step Functions in AWS

* Dynamic Parallelism (AWS Article)

* Event-Driven Architecture (Starting with CloudWatch events)

* Automate Integrating new Data Sources (Metadata Injection)

* Deploy simply to Production (Cloud Formation)

* Scale Data Architecture with Microservices (Microservice Orchestration)

Step Functions Separate Flow from Execution

* Managing Tasks with Step Functions

Execution Targets for Step Functions

* Lambda Functions

* Elastic Map Reduce

* Kafka Process Streaming Data

Triggering Step Functions with Events

* EventBridge tracking of Step functions